2017 Cambridge Film Festival Brochure

19th – 26th October 

UK Premieres 

Family Film Festival 

ShortFusion 

Camera Catalonia 

India Unboxed 

Restorations & 

Rediscoveries 

microcinema 

Cambridge African 

Film Festival 

Lates @APH 

Korean Cinema 

Virtual Reality 

programme 

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Main Features & 

6 Documentaries 

Focus on 

13 Lynne Ramsay 

14 Camera 

Catalonia 

Cambridge African 

Film Festival 

15 

16 

Casanova page 19 

Schedule of Films 

Tickets & Venues 

37th Cambridge Film Festival | 19th–26th October 

31 A–Z 

of films 

WIlderness 

page 12 

Festival 

5 highlights 

18 India 

Unboxed 

19 Restorations Rediscoveries 

& 

20 

21 Korean 

Cinema 

22 microcinema 


Programme 

32 Festival 

sponsors 

A Fantastic Woman 

page 7 

24 Lates 

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Family Film 

26 Festival 

28 ShortFusion 

Next Generation 

Tiger Shorts 

30 Cambridge 

Filmmaker Focus 

Vaya page 15 

Amateurs in Space page 6 

CAMBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL STAFF 

Festival Director 

Tony Jones 

Brochure Editor & Festival Logistics 

Iris Ordonez 

Marketing & Communications Manager 

Owen Baker 

Festival Operations & Hospitality Manager Cristina Roures 

Trust Project & Development Manager 

Elisabeth Gautier 

Marketing Co-ordinator from BarnesBaker Kayleigh Barnes 

Funding Manager 

Mike O’Brien 

International programmers 

Bill Lawrence, Iris Ordonez 

& Loreta Gandolfi 

Cambridge African Film Festival 

Mike Boyd 

Camera Catalonia Programmer 

Ramon Lamarca 

Archive & Restorations Programmer 

Margaret Deriaz 

microcinema Programmer 

James Mackay 

Lates@APH Programmer 

Rosy Hunt 

Family Film Festival Programmer 

Kate Jones 

Short Films & Submissions Co-ordinator 

Sarah McIntosh 

India Unboxed Co-ordinator 

Malavika Anderson 

Korean Cultural Centre 

Hyunjn Cho 

ShortReel 

Hugh Taylor 

Virtual Reality Experience Producer 

Bill Thompson 

Virtual Reality Experience Curator for 

Limina Immersive 

Catherine Allen 

Cambridge Filmmaker Focus Programmer 

Ryd Cook 

Marketing support 

BarnesBaker 

Brochure design 

Dan Taylor 

Festival PR Emfoundation 

Keeley Naylor & Lisa Richards 

microcinema PR Albany Arts Communications Jessica Clifford & 

Catrin Podgorski 

Projectionists Ryd Cook, Carl Peck, Josh Senior & John Carpenter 

Cambridge 105 

Toby Miller 

Festival interns 

Alexandra Petkova, Fiona Hughes, 

John Grove, Katharine Brooks, Mia Solomiia & Seweryn Ptak 

Editor-in-Chief 

Deputy Editors 

TAKE ONE FESTIVAL MAGAZINE 

Rosy Hunt 

Ben Johnston, Mark Liversidge & Stephen Watson 

CAMBRIDGE FILM TRUST 

Simon Jones, Tony Jones, Bill Lawrence & Isabelle McNeill 

AT THE ARTS PICTUREHOUSE 

General Manager 

Keith Gehlert 

Marketing Manager 

Jack Toye 

Technical Manager 

Clare Mackenzie 

Duty Managers 

Daniel Harling & Lorcan O’Neill 

Projectionists 

Hitomi Shinozaki, George Agnew, 

Hannah Hitchin & Tom Brookes 

PICTUREHOUSE CINEMAS 

Clare Binns, Madeleine Mullet, Peter Phillips & John Barrenchea 

THE MOVING CINEMA 

Lyn Goleby 

Plus all the amazing volunteers, Arts Picturehouse staff and 

all the hard-working film submissions reviewers

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Something for 

everyone - and savings 

galore! - at the 37th 

Cambridge Film 


Welcome 

to the 

King of the Belgians page 8 

Whether you’re an out-and-out film fanatic looking for 

your annual Festival-fix, or you only manage to get out to 

the pictures once in a blue moon, we’ve got it covered. This 

year’s Festival features specially selected screenings for 

everyone from parents and babies to retirees, all scheduled 

at convenient times and locations - and with many options 

for massive ticket discounts too! 

Here’s a quick guide to help you navigate through our film 

and events programme and make the most out of our 

magnificent movie line-up. 

Silver 

Screen 

Silver Screen 

at Arts Picturehouse 

A fantastic offer for all over 60s: tickets for screenings 

on Tuesday and Thursday that start before 16:45 at Arts 

Picturehouse are only £6.20. If you show your ticket at the Arts 

Picturehouse café-bar you can also enjoy a complimentary 

cup of tea or filter coffee - and free biscuits! 

FAMILY 

Family Film 


All the family can join in the Festival fun at the Family Film 

Festival. Enjoy rare big screen outings for classic film and TV 

treats all together and create some precious family moviegoing 

memories - all for the pocket money price of just £4.00 

each at Arts Picturehouse! 

PASS 


Pass 

Cambridge Film Festival 

Welcome to our 37th CFF. 

Founded 40 years ago, the Festival began life at the old Arts Cinema, its home for 20 years, 

and was relaunched – following a short break - at the current Arts Picturehouse in 2001. I am 

privileged to have been involved for so long; many good friends have come and gone, and 

several have passed away. 

I dare say many would wonder at the radical changes that 

have taken place: digital cinema, far from being the saviour of 

‘specialised’ film, has in fact reduced the opportunity for smaller 

films to gain any serious currency at the UK box office. Fewer and 

fewer foreign language films now make any serious impact in 

the UK. 

Festival screenings may now be the only opportunity to see 

many of the titles sourced by the Cambridge team. The digital 

revolution has been a boon, but mainly for the big commercial 

releases. Instead of being restricted to expensive 35mm prints, 

cinemas now have terabytes of storage on their library facilities. 

There is effectively no barring by distributors, so all cinemas can 

concurrently play what appear to be the most bankable titles, 

squeezing out more adventurous or challenging fare. While 

new cinemas may open with large-scale funding or communitybased 

resources, there are still few models of truly independent 

programming. You may well have read this before – but the 

message remains the same. 

We have reduced the festival to a still rich feast of 100+ titles 

over the 8 days. All venues are within minutes of one another: 

from Emmanuel to Downing College, and from the Picturehouse 

to Parker’s Piece, the location of the Moving Cinema. The 

Picturehouse is, as always, your base to explore this panorama of 

world cinema. 

I am grateful to all the programmers who have viewed and 

researched titles from the many submissions, as well as from 

the Berlin, Cannes, Edinburgh, Sheffield and Cinema Ritrovato 

(Bologna) festivals. Our long established relationships with 

international agents and distributors ensure that Cambridge is 

well served. Despite the generosity of our major funders, without 

which there would be no Festival, we operate, as ever, on a 

micro-budget, putting each year’s programme together with our 

very loyal local supporters and sponsors and with the revenue we 

earn from our outdoor film events (the Grantchester screenings 

are a major source of funds and promotion for the Festival). 

However, we struggle every year to keep the standard high and 

only manage through the immense good will of our staff and 

volunteers. My thanks to all the team who have been tireless in 

seeking out titles for your viewing and in helping to produce this 

annual celebration of film. 

We always aim to feature a Restorations and Rediscoveries strand, 

including silent films with live music, and we are especially pleased 

this year to present magnificent new prints of Casanova (1927), 

Shiraz (1928), Mildred Pierce (1945) and The Wages of Fear (1953). 

This year, in collaboration with the Festival of Ideas, we have 

also programmed India Unboxed. This selection of silent cinema, 

new documentaries and contemporary classics will feature 

alongside the main F.o.I. programme. New Catalan cinema and 

an expanded microcinema programme continue, along with 10 

programmes of submissions - 5 feature-length productions and 5 

themed ShortFusion programmes. This year we are introducing 

a bespoke Virtual Reality strand. These programmes have been 

designed to explore the boundaries of the VR experience - look out 

for the 4 unique programmes limited to 5 participants per session. 

The Festival is dedicated to the memory of Liz Scott, my partner 

for over 20 years, for her support has been immense. Liz passed 

away last January – a case of knowing all too late what cancer 

had in store for her. If only … 

Tony Jones 

The Festival pass is a great way to see the films you love and 

save money. You pay just £30.00 for the pass and it buys you 

£40.00 worth of Festival tickets. You can also apply your usual 

Arts Picturehouse membership discount when purchasing 

tickets for even bigger savings. Once you have your Festival 

Pass, we recommend purchasing Festival tickets in advance 

of your chosen screenings/events to avoid disappointment. 

Please note that Festival Passes can ONLY be used to 

purchase tickets from the Arts Picturehouse – from where you 

can use your Pass to purchase tickets for ALL other Festival 

venues. Festival Passes can’t be used online or at any other 

venues. Please note it excludes CAFF closing night film. 

Membership 

Discounts 

Picturehouse Members get a £2.00 discount on each Festival 

ticket and avoid online booking fees. These discounts are 

available at ALL venues if you show your Picturehouse 

membership card and can work in conjunction with the 

Festival Pass at Arts Picturehouse. *Please note the Family 

Film Festival tickets and Silver Screen cannot have further 

discounts applied to them. 

Audience 

Awards 

Every year the Cambridge Film Festival crowns three 

audience award-winning films. The Golden, Silver and 

Crystal Punts go to the best feature, best documentary and 

best short film, as voted for by you, the Cambridge Film 

Festival audience. With these awards we aim to highlight the 

outstanding work of filmmakers from around the globe and 

we hope that you will assist us with voting in large numbers. 

Voting connects you with the filmmakers, who eagerly 

anticipate the outcome for their film. Before you go into a 

screening of any “in competition” film, you will be handed a 

voting card. Please rate the film and hand the card back to 

Festival team members after the screening. You never know, 

but your favourite Festival film might be amongst the three 

winners this year! 

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The Cambridge Film Festival is proud to have been awarded the British Film Institute’s 

special Screen Diversity mark of good practice. It was given the maximum available 

4 stars for meeting the BFI’s new diversity standards, which recognise projects where 

diversity is highly valued and effectively promoted with regard to areas such as on-screen 

representation and audience development. 

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Thu 19 

8.30 

ArtsPicturehouse Thursday 19 | 8.30, ArtsPicturehouse Friday 20 | 12.00 

BATTLE OF THE 

SEXES | CFF 15 

UK/USA, 2017, 121 mins. 

Directors Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris 

Starring Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, 

Natalie Morales, Sarah Silverman, Bill Pullman, 

Alan Cumming , Elisabeth Shue 

In the wake of the sexual revolution and the rise of the women’s movement, the 1973 tennis match between women’s world 

champion Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and ex-men’s-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) was billed as the 

Battle Of The Sexes and became one of the most watched televised sports events of all time, reaching 90 million viewers around 

the world. As the rivalry between King and Riggs kicked into high gear, off-court each was fighting more personal and complex 

battles. The fiercely private King was not only championing for equality, but also struggling to come to terms with her own 

sexuality, and Riggs, one of the first self-made media-age celebrities, wrestled with his gambling demons, at the expense of his 

family and wife. Together, Billie and Bobby served up a cultural spectacle that resonated far beyond the tennis court, sparking 

discussions in bedrooms and boardrooms that continue to reverberate today. 

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Thu 26 

8.30 

YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE | CFF 15 

UK/France/USA, 2017, 85 mins. 

Director Lynne Ramsay 

Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alessandro Nivola, 

Alex Manette, John Doman, Judith Roberts 

Joaquin Phoenix and Ekaterina Samsonov are the mesmerising leads in You Were Never Really Here, 

adapted from the novel by American author Jonathan Ames. Lynne Ramsay’s dark and gripping 

thriller pulls the viewer into a nightmarish world of missing teenage girl Nina, with brutal and 

tormented enforcer Joe on a rescue mission. Corrupt power and vengeance unleash a storm of 

violence that may lead to his awakening. 

You Were Never Really Here, an experience fully capable 

of blowing you away. 

THE TELEGRAPH 

Print source Studiocanal 

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SURPRISE 

FILM | CFF15 

Every year we present a surprise film - which has absolutely 

no advance warning of title, director, stars or genre - just 

a screening time and a venue. And every year it sells out. 

Without doubt the Surprise Film is the hottest ticket in the 

festival. What will it be this year? Only festival director Tony 

Jones knows for certain and the guessing game has started 

amongst the festival team eager to find out. Past Surprise 

Films have included Up!, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Burn After 

Reading and Looper. So, with no hype and no reviews to 

distract you, book your ticket, sit back in your seat, and enjoy. 

Reel Women celebrates the work of female 

filmmakers. Look out for their logo to see which 

films in the programme are directed by women 

In Search of Colour: Kinemacolor Shorts, Becoming Cary Grant, and Dawson City, Frozen Time are all 

presented as part of Cinema Rediscovered on Tour, a Watershed Project with support from BFI awarding 

funds from The National Lottery. 

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UK 

PREMIERE 

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78/52 | 15 

USA, 2017, 91 mins. 

Director Alexandre O. Philippe 

An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene in Alfred 

Hitchcock’s Psycho, the ‘Man Behind the Curtain’, and 

the screen murder that profoundly changed the course 

of world cinema. 78/52 references the number of set-ups 

(78) and the number of cuts (52) in the shower scene from 

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. One entire week out of the four 

weeks scheduled to shoot Psycho – a full quarter of the 

film’s production schedule – was dedicated to the infamous 

shower scene. 

We are delighted that filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe 

will join us for a Q&A following the screening. 

78/52 ticket holders can enjoy a free screening of Psycho 

on Wednesday 25 Oct at 1.00 at the Arts Picturehouse. 

Print source Dogwoof 

120 BPM | CFF 15 

120 Battements Par Minute 

France, 2017, 140 mins. French with English subtitles. 

Director Robin Campillo 

Starring Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, 

Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz, Félix 

Maritaud, Ariel Borenstein, Aloïse 

Sauvage, Simon Bourgade 

Print source Curzon Artificial Eye 

APH Mon 23 | 7.30, APH Wed 25 | 10.15am 

Robin Campillo’s follow up to Eastern Boys takes as its backdrop 

the early 1990s and the rise of the AIDS epidemic in France. With 

AIDS having already claimed countless lives for nearly ten years, 

Act up-Paris activists multiply actions to fight general indifference. 

Nathan, a newcomer to the group, has his world shaken up by Sean, a 

radical militant, who throws his last bits of strength into the struggle. 

Sprawling in the very best sense of the word, 120 BPM is astonishing in 

its merging of the personal and the political. 

A157 | CFF 15 

Iran, 2016, 73 mins. Kurdish with English subtitles. 

Director Behrouz Nooranipour 

Winner of the Special Jury Award at ‘Cinema Vérité’, Iran 

International Documentary Film Festival and best featurelength 

documentary award at the 16th Watch Docs, Human 

Rights in Film in Warsaw, this moving documentary relates 

the horrors of war and terrorism in Syria, especially on 

women and children. Directed by Behrouz Nooranipour, 

A157 is the story of the ethical collapse occurring throughout 

the war. It focuses on the lives of three Syrian Kurd girls who 

had lost their fathers a day before Daesh terrorists attacked 

their city and are now living in a refugee camp on the 

Turkish-Syrian border in the UNHCR tent number 157, not 

knowing what has happened to their mothers, recounting 

their stories of war, violence and rape in a land where people 

have no more dreams… 

Print source Soureh Cinema Organization, Hozeh Honari 

UK 

PREMIERE 

UK 

PREMIERE 

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AMATEURS IN SPACE | CFF 15 

Denmark, 2016, 89 mins. Danish/English with 

English subtitles. 

Director Max Kestner 

With Kristian von Bengtson, Peter Madsen, 

Steen Andersen 

Suddenly this film has taken on bizarre topicality. And this 

is great fun. Two passionate eccentrics decide to send the 

first Dane into space so set about building their rocket. 

They create Copenhagen Suborbitals and start building 

and testing. Fascinating for its engineering but more so to 

see how the two friends break apart under the pressure of 

the project. At the heart of the film is Peter Madsen, who 

in August sank his own submarine and then was arrested 

for the murder of journalist Kim Wall. Were the seeds of 

this tragedy sown on the the rocket project? An even more 

remarkable film in the light of current events. 

Print source Autlook Films 

EMMA Sun 22 | 9.00, APH Wed 25 | 1.00 

ANISHOARA | CFF 15 

Anişoara 

Moldova/Germany, 2016, 106 mins. Romanian with 


Director Ana Scutelnicu 

Starring Anishoara Morari, Andrei Morari, Dragoş 

Scutelnicu, Vasile Brînză, Veronica Cangea 

Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu’s first solo feature is born from a 

folktale and flows into the transition to woman-hood 

of orphaned 15-year-old Anishoara. Her life is calm and 

self-contained as she spends her last year of childhood in a 

Moldovan village, but the outside world is reaching in as men 

are drawn to her. Set against the changing seasons, each 

representing a different tone to the drama and her suitors, 

Scutelnicu creates an expressionist work that sensitively 

conveys Anishoara’s story of eternal longing, for someone, 

something, somewhere. 

Print source Pluto Film Distribution Network 

APH Sun 22 | 8.15 

THE BALLAD OF SHIRLEY 

COLLINS | CFF 15 

UK, 2017, 94 mins. 

Director Rob Curry, Tim Plester 

With Shirley Collins, Stewart Lee, David Tibet, 

Elle Osborne 

Shirley Collins was at the epicentre of the folk music revival 

during the 1960’s and ’70s, before a vocal disorder robbed 

her of her uniquely ancestral singing voice. Filmmakers 

Rob Curry and Tim Plester were granted intimate access 

to recording sessions for her first new album in almost four 

decades, and making adventurous use of a motherlode of 

seminal archive audio, The Ballad of Shirley Collins chronicles 

one woman’s gallant battle to rise phoenix-like from long 

silent ashes. 

We hope to welcome producer Paul Williams and 

director Tim Plester to the screening. 

Print source Burning Bridges 

APH Sat 21 | 12.30, MC Tue 24 | 4.30 

BECOMING CARY GRANT | 12A 

France, 2017, 85 mins. 

Director Mark Kidel 

With Jonathan Pryce (narration), Barbara Jaynes, 

Judy Balaban, David Thomson 

As Cary Grant famously remarked: ‘Everyone wants to be 

Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.’ Born Archibald 

Leach in Bristol in 1904, Grant was the epitome of Hollywood 

elegance, glamour and sophisticated wit, but this absorbing 

portrait reveals the gulf between the urbane public persona 

and the deeply insecure private man who, even at the height 

of his fame, was desperate to find inner peace. Using a 

wealth of movie clips alongside Grant’s previously unseen 

home movies, extracts from his unpublished autobiography 

and some telling interviews, filmmaker Mark Kidel charts 

Grant’s poignant and fascinating journey of self-discovery. 

We hope to welcome guests from the film to the screening. 

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THE BREADWINNER | CFF PG 

Canada/Ireland/Luxembourg, 2017, 94 mins. 

Director Nora Twomey 

Starring Saara Chaudry, Laara Sadiq, Shaista Latif 

Directed by Nora Twomey and executive produced by Mimi 

Polk Gitlin and Angelina Jolie,The Breadwinner tells the 

story of Parvana, an 11-year-old girl growing up under the 

Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully 

arrested, Parvana disguises herself as a boy in order to 

support her family. With dauntless perseverance, Parvana 

draws strength from the stories her father told her, and 

ultimately risks her life to discover if he is still alive. Equal 

parts thrilling and enchanting, The Breadwinner is a timely 

and inspiring tale about the transcendent power of stories, 

and their potential to unite and heal us all. 


APH Fri 20 | 10.15, APH Sun 22 | 1.00 

BUENA VISTA ADIOS | CFF PG 

Cuba/USA, 2017, 110 mins. Spanish/English with 


Director Lucy Walker 

With Omara Portuondo, Jesus “Aguaje” Ramos, 

Barbarito Torres, Manuel “Guajiro” Mirabal 

Nearly two decades ago Cuban music set the world on fire. 

Now we will hear their stories, their amazing music, their 

unforgettable journey in Lucy Walker’s documentary Buena 

Vista Adios, a fond farewell chronicling the late-life careers 

of the Buena Vista Social Club musicians, many of whom 

have since passed away. Set against the backdrop of Cuba’s 

captivating musical history, we hear the band’s story as they 

reflect on their remarkable careers and the extraordinary 

circumstances that brought them together. Sit back and 

enjoy their vibrant personalities and the wonderful music. 

We hope to welcome guests from the film to 

the screening. 


APH Sun 22 | 3.20, APH Tue 24 | 3.00 

CAUSE OF DEATH: 

UNKNOWN | CFF 15 

Norway, 2017, 88 mins. English/Norwegian with English 

subtitles. 

Director Anniken Hoel 

When Anniken Hoel’s sister, Renate, died it was a shock. True, 

she wasn’t well and was being treated with anti-psychotics, 

but it was a shock. She goes on a journey of investigation to 

find out why. She quickly finds herself entering the world of 

Big Pharma and the multi-billion dollar world of prescribed 

drugs. A powerful documentary that is both alarming 

without being alarmist. This documentary is a powerful 

investigation of the biggest global business and the push to 

prescribe, and Anniken brilliantly organises her material into 

a fascinating and eye-opening wake up call. 

We hope to welcome director Anniken Hoel and producer 

Andrew Grant to the screening. 

Print source Rise and Shine 

MC Mon 23 | 9.00, APH Wed 25 | 7.15 

CONDITIONAL 

RELEASE | CFF 15 

Iran, 2017, 100 mins. Persian with English subtitles. 

Director Hossein Shahabi 

Starring Shaghayegh Farahani, Amir Jafari, Leila Otadi , 

Diba Zahedi 

The new feature film from Iranian film director, screenwriter 

and producer Hossein Shahabi is Conditional Release, 

the story of a middle-aged man, Kamali, who has been 

sentenced to 20 years in prison. After 10 years is he being 

granted a conditional release. In an unbridled society in 

which laws are often enforced according to money or the will 

of powerful people, avoidance of any sort of punishable act 

is more challenging than it should be. 

Print source Pars Universal Vision Co. 

UK 

PREMIERE 

DAWSON CITY, 

FROZEN TIME | 12A 

USA, 2016, 120 mins. 

APH Thu 26 | 6.15 

Director Bill Morrison 

Renowned New York-based filmmaker Bill Morrison tells 

an extraordinary tale on several levels: back in 1903, the 

movies arrived in Dawson City (Canada), previously the 

centre of the Klondike Gold Rush. Because the town was 

so remote, the film studios were reluctant to pay for their 

prints to be returned, and thus it happened that a treasure 

trove of discarded silent films ended up buried in permafrost 

until their miraculous re-discovery in 1978. Combining 

fascinating historical research with a wealth of clips from 

this remarkable collection, Morrison vividly resurrects the 

Gold Rush era and demonstrates the magic of early cinema. 

We hope to welcome director Bill Morrison to the 

screening. 

Print source Picture Palace Pictures 

MC Tue 24 | 6.45, APH Thu 26 | 10.15am 

THE DESERT BRIDE | CFF 15 

La Novia del Desierto 

Argentina/Chile, 2017, 78 mins. Spanish with 


Directors Cecilia Atán & Valeria Pivato 

Starring Paulina García, Claudio Rissi 

In this delicately observed Argentinian road movie, 

Gloria’s Paulina García, gives another beautifully nuanced 

performance as 54-year-old Teresa, who has worked for 

decades as a live-in maid for a family in Buenos Aires. When 

the family sells the house, she is forced to take a job in a 

distant town. On the journey to her new employers she 

loses her small bag packed with all her possessions. This 

unexpected incident leads her to cross paths with El Gringo, 

a travelling salesman, and together they set off in search 

for her possessions. His gentle, free spirit allows Teresa to 

blossom, and what seemed like the end of her world will 

ultimately prove her salvation. 

Print source Cité Films 

A FANTASTIC WOMAN | CFF 15 

Una mujer fantástica 

Spain/Chile/Germany/USA, 2017, 104 mins. Spanish with 


Director Sebastián Lelio 

Starring Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, 

Aline Kuppenheim, Nicolas Saavedra 


ShortReel 2017’s winning film will premiere at the 

Saturday 21 screening. See page 14 for details. 

APH Sat 21 | 8.00, APH Mon 23 | 12.45 

Chilean director Sebastián Lelio (Gloria) returns with an emotionally 

and visually powerful drama. Marina, a young waitress and aspiring 

singer, is in love with Orlando, 20 years older than her. They are 

planning for the future, when suddenly Orlando falls seriously ill 

and dies. Instead of being able to mourn her lover, she is treated 

with suspicion. The doctors and Orlando’s family don’t trust her. 

While the police are investigating Marina, the family bar her from 

attending the funeral and are threatening to throw her out of the 

flat she shared with Orlando. Marina is a trans woman and her 

sexual identity is an aberration, a perversion for the family. But 

Marina fights for the right to be herself, battling the very same forces 

that she has spent a lifetime fighting, just to become the woman she 

is now – a complex, strong, forthright and fantastic woman. 

APH Mon 23 | 3.00, APH Wed 25 | 1.15 

FLICKER + PULSE | CFF U 

UK, 2016, 50 mins. 

Directors Brian McClave & Tom Wichelow 

Flicker + Pulse is a striking and poignant portrayal of time 

passing in a beautiful English walled garden. Using real-time 

and time-lapse footage, the film explores the relationship 

between the seasons and the plants and people who work 

within the walls of the garden. Locked into the clock of the 

solar system, the garden performs its annual display, guided 

by the ritualistic human intervention of those passionately 

engaged with its soil. 

We are delighted to welcome directors Brian McClave & 

Tom Wichelow to the screening. 

Print source Site-Eye 

+ A YEAR ALONG THE ABANDONED ROAD 

Norway 1991. 12 mins. 

Director Morten Skallerud 

A rare chance to see this prize winning short on the big screen. 

THE FLORIDA 

PROJECT | CFF 15 

115 mins. 

Director Sean Baker 

Starring Brooklynn Kimberly Prince, Willem 

Dafoe, Bria Vinaite, Valeria Cotto, 

Christopher Rivera, Caleb Landry 

Jones 

Print source Altitude Film Distribution 

APH Fri 20 | 8.00, APH Sun 22 | 1.15 

This highly anticipated follow-up to iPhone sensation Tangerine from US 

indie wunderkid Sean Baker is another brilliant portrait of the underbelly 

of life. Another collaboration with writer Chris Bergoch, the film tells the 

story of a precocious six-year-old and her rag-tag group of friends whose 

summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense 

of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times: it’s 

equal parts American Honey with a dash of Beasts of the Southern Wild. 

What elevates the film is its compelling look at life on the blue-collar 

margins and its ability to capture the wonderment of childhood. Willem 

Dafoe sprinkles some fairy dust as Bobby, the put upon manager of the 

down-at-heel hotel on whose denizens the film focuses. 

APH Sun 22 | 3.15, Emma Mon 23 | 12.00 

IT’S NOT YET DARK | CFF 15 

Ireland/UK/US, 2016, 77 mins. 

Director Frankie Fenton 

It’s Not Yet Dark tells the story of Simon Fitzmaurice, a 

talented Irish Filmmaker who is living with Motor Neurone 

Disease. He was diagnosed at the age of 34, after his short 

film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. His wife was 

expecting their third child and they were left shocked and 

reeling. Simon refused to give up and started to work on the 

script for a feature film - My Name is Emily. Now, five years 

later, the father of five children, he is completely physically 

incapacitated. Narrated by Colin Farrell, and using extracts 

from Simon’s best selling memoir, we follow Simon as he 

embarks on the direction of his first feature film through 

the use of the last physical attribute he has control over - 

his eyes. 

Print source Autlook Filmsales 

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PREMIERE 

UK 

PREMIERE 

JOURNEYMAN | CFF 15 


Director Paddy Considine 

Starring Paddy Considine, Jodie Whittaker, 

Paul Popplewell 


APH Tue 24 | 8.30 

The much-anticipated follow-up to Tyrannosaur, Paddy Considine’s 

Journeyman is a physically and emotionally bruising boxing drama 

that focuses on a pugilist rebuilding his life and career after a nearfatal 

injury. An intimate character study that avoids the sporting 

clichés of the genre, the film offers a masterclass in restraint. Built 

largely around the incredible performance of Considine in the central 

role, there is also fine support from recently appointed Dr. Who star 

Jodie Whittaker. 


APH Fri 20 | 5.30 

JULIAN SCHNABEL: 

A PRIVATE PORTRAIT | CFF 15 

USA, Italy, 2017, 90 mns. 

Director Pappi Corsicato 

With Julian Schnabel, Laurie Anderson, Hector 

Babenco, Jean Michel Basquiat 

A mesmerizing portrait of Julian Schnabel, one of the 

most eclectic, iconic New York artists, an Oscar-nominated 

filmmaker, a father and family man, including commentary 

from family, friends and fellow travellers such as Al Pacino, 

Willem Dafoe, Bono, Emmanuelle Seigner, Vito Schnabel. 

Acclaimed director Pappi Corsicato presents an undisclosed 

glimpse into the life of Julian Schnabel, a titan of painting 

and filmmaking and enfant terrible of the art scene. 

Print source Global Screen 

Down Sat 21 | 6.00, APH Sun 22 | 10.30am 

KÉKSZAKÁLLÚ | CFF 15 

Argentina, 2016, 72 mins. Spanish with English subtitles. 

Director Gastón Solnicki 

Starring Laila Maltz, Katia Szechtman, Lara Tarlowski, 

Natali Maltz, Maria Soldi, Pedro Trocca 

Loosely inspired by Béla Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle, 

Solnicki’s extraordinary film revolves around the lives of 

several daughters of rich industrialists from Buenos Aires. 

On holiday in Punta de Este with their friends and lovers, 

through the pleasures and boredom Kékszakállú offers a 

very original and powerful portrait of anguish, solitude 

and a sense of entrapment in this seeming paradise. With 

a minimalist and elliptical approach, Solnicki superbly sets 

extracts of the staging of the opera alongside the life of his 

protagonists, opening it up to a myriad of interpretations 

that render the film all the more mysterious. 

Print source Filmy Wiktora, Frutacine 

UK 

PREMIERE 

APH Sun 22 | 8.00, APH Tue 24 | 10.00am 

THE KILLING OF A 

SACRED DEER | CFF 15 

Ireland/UK, 2017, 121 mins. 

Director Yorgos Lanthimos 

Starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan 

Colin Farrell plays Steven, a charismatic surgeon who is 

forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to 

fall apart following his opaque relationship with a teenage 

boy. Faust meets Sophie’s Choice in this chilling analysis of 

the banality of evil in which the formal brilliance of Kubrick 

looms large. Nicole Kidman offers brilliant support in a 

film in which Greek director Yorgos Lànthimos confirms 

his elevation to the upper echelons of contemporary 

filmmakers. 


KING OF THE 

BELGIANS | CFF 15 

Belgium, 2016, 94 mins. English/Flemish/ 

French/Bulgarian with English subtitles. 

Directors Jessica Woodworth & Peter 

Brosens 

Starring Peter Van Den Begin, Bruno 

Georis, Lucie Debay, Titus De 

Voogdt, Pieter Van Der Houwen 

Print source Be For Films 

APH Fri 20 | 5.45, APH Sat 21 | 12.45 

Jessica Woodworth & Peter Brosens’s delightful comedy is a journey 

of marvel with King Nicolas III and his entourage crossing borders, 

geographical, emotional and intellectual. During a diplomatic visit to Turkey, 

the news that Wallonia has declared Independence, prompts the King’s 

immediate return, but… this is not possible! The narrative of displacement 

becomes a metaphor for the King’s imprisoned soul. The unexpected 

encounters with the other nations on his return journey will transform him 

from a soulless man of the protocol into his real self. Humorous, witty and 

profound, this is the perfect watch in this post-Brexitean mood. 

We are delighted to welcome director Jessica Woodworth to the 

screening. 

APH Sat 21 | 5.15, APH Mon 23 | 10.00am 

LOVE, CECIL | CFF 15 


Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland 

With Cecil Beaton, Hamish Bowles, Leslie Caron, 

Rupert Everett, David Hockney 

Love, Cecil is the fascinating documentary about Sir Cecil 

Walter Hardy Beaton CBE, the fashion, portrait and war 

photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an 

Academy Award–winning stage and costume designer for 

films and the theatre. Throughout his illustrious career he 

rubbed shoulders with the biggest stars and the Queen 

herself. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland tells the story of 

Beaton’s 70-year career, using archive interviews with those 

closest as well as some at odds with him, all interspersed 

with readings of Beaton’s diaries by Rupert Everett. 

See Audrey Hepburn as My Fair Lady, page 19. 


APH Wed 25 | 8.30, APH Thu 26 | 10.00am 

LOVELESS | CFF 15 

Nelyubov 

Russia/France/Belgium/Germany, 2017, 127 mins. 

Director Andrey Zvyagintsev 

Starring Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey 

Novikov, Marina Vasilyeva, Andris Keiss 

This stark and emotionally desolate tale of a Russian 

couple in the throes of a terrible separation confirms Andrey 

Zvyagintsev as one of the most accomplished filmmakers 

of his generation. Boris and Zhenya are going through a 

divorce. Arguing constantly, and in the process of selling 

their apartment, they are already preparing for their new 

lives. Neither seems interested in their 12-year-old son 

Alyosha. A film that is chilling in its presentation of conflict 

on a personal, national and international scale, it is shot 

in industrial tones to heighten the emotional Russian 

hinterland in which it unfolds. 

Print source Altitude Film Distribution 

MANIFESTO | CFF 15 

Germany, 2017, 95 mins. 

APH Wed 25 | 8.00 

Director Julian Rosefeldt 

Starring Cate Blanchett 

Can historic art manifestos apply to contemporary 

society? A homage to the 20th century’s most impassioned 

artistic statements, from Futurists and Dadaists to Pop 

Art, Fluxus, Lars von Trier and Jim Jarmusch, this series of 

reenactments – all performed by Cate Blanchett – explores 

these declarations’ performative components and political 

significance. 

Print source More2Screen and Modern Films 

APH Mon 23 | 5.00, MC Wed 25 | 2.00 

MENASHE | U 

US/Israel, 2016, 81 mins. Yiddish with English subtitles. 

Director Joshua Z. Weinstein 

Starring Menashe Lustig, Ruben Niborksi, 

Yoel Weisshaus 

Joshua Z. Weinstein’s award-winning debut offers a 

dense, detailed portrait of Hasidic life in the streets, shops, 

synagogues and homes of Borough Park, Brooklyn. Menashe 

(Menashe Lustig), a recently widowed grocery store worker, is 

battling to retain custody of his ten-year-old son. As tradition 

requires children to live in a house with a mother, he’s under 

huge pressure to find a new wife – something he’s not all that 

keen on. Shot covertly with mostly non-professional, Yiddishspeaking 

actors drawn from the ultra-orthodox community, 

this unsentimental, documentary-style film offers a 

fascinating insight into a secretive, unfamiliar world. 

Print source Vertigo Releasing 

APH Wed 25 | 3.00, APH Thu 26 | 3.00 

MOUNTAINS MAY 

DEPART | CFF 15 

China/Japan/France, 2015, 131 mins. Chinese/Mandarin/ 

Cantonese/English with English subtitles. 

Director Jia Zhangke 

Starring Zhao Tao Zhang Yi, Liang Jin Dong, Dong Zijian, 

Sylvia Chang, Han Sanming 

Jia Zhangke’s extraordinary film is a generation-spanning 

drama that follows life in China from 1999 as commercial 

opportunities arise and the nature of life changes. In three 

distinct chapters, 1999, 2015 and 2025 (each shot in a 

different aspect ratio) Tao (played by the stunning Tao Zhao) 

marries into wealth and faces the comforts of money, but 

the loss of something more critical. By 2025, the family has 

split and father and son have moved to Australia, leaving 

Tao behind. Utterly compelling and fascinating from a great 

world filmmaker. 

Print source Arrow Films 


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APH Fri 20 | 8.15, APH Sat 21 | 10.40 

THE NEW FIRE | CFF 15 


Director David Schumacher 

With Jeffrey Sachs, James Hansen, Ken Caldeira, 

Leslie Dewan, Jacob DeWitte 

As the effects of climate change become more and more 

apparent, a new generation of nuclear engineers is on 

the rise, hoping to help solve the greatest environmental 

challenge humanity has ever faced. The New Fire is a 

documentary by Emmy-winning director David Schumacher, 

which provides a timely perspective on addressing climate 

change and global development. Nuclear energy has been 

vilified in much of the environmental community, yet the 

next-generation reactors currently in development may 

actually be the key to avoiding climate catastrophe. 

We are delighted to welcome director David Schumacher 

to the screening. 

Print source Generation Films 

APH Sat 21 | 2.40, Emma Mon 23 | 4.30 

NO LAND’S SONG | CFF PG 

Iran, 2014, 91 mins. Persian/French/English with 


Director Ayat Najafi 

Starring Sara Najafi, Elise Caron, Jeanne Charal 

This extraordinary documentary is in turn fascinating, 

moving and amusing. After the 1979 Islamic revolution 

women were not allowed to sing solo in public in Iran as it 

is considered ‘anti-Islamic’. Sara Najafi, a young composer 

is trying to organise a joint concert in Tehran with French 

women singers. The film follows Sara as she struggles 

against the teachings that women’s singing is so tender 

that it can arouse men, their voices being 9 times more 

tender than men’s. Fortunately, combining women’s voices 

can dilute the tenderness and so it is OK for women to sing 

in groups, especially if combined with male singers. But 

revolution is again in the air. 

Print source HANFGARN & UFER Filmproduktion GbR 

THE PRINCE OF 

NOTHINGWOOD | CFF 15 

France/Germany, 2017, ? mins. French/Dari/English 

with English subtitles. 

Director Sonia Kronlund 

With Salim Shaheen 

Print source Vertigo Releasing 

EMMA Fri 20 | 4.30, APH Sun 22 | 10.30 

An astonishing documentary from Sonia Kronlund observes Salim 

Shaheen, the most prolific and popular actor-director-producer 

in Afghanistan. Shooting Shaheen as his 110 feature films are 

locally celebrated, Kronlund also captures the moment a new film 

is conceived with his repertory cast of equally eccentric actors. A 

fascinating character study of a one man industry who became 

smitten by cinema as a child, this is also a portrait of a country that 

has been at war for more than thirty years and of what it means to 

relentlessly pursue your dream. 

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OPERATION 

SYNCOPATION | CFF 15 

UK, 2017. 100 mins. 

Director Maxim Thompson 

With Amelia Oldfield, Emma Davies, Dawn Loombe 

This ground-breaking documentary follows Professor 

Amelia Oldfield as she revisits ten families who received 

music therapy from her over fifteen years ago, and explores 

the impact of the therapy on the life trajectories of young 

people with autism. Mixing archive footage from the original 

research, recordings of the sessions with Amelia Oldfield and 

the families, and specially shot interviews with Anglia Ruskin 

University music therapists, Operation Syncopation offers an 

unprecedented window into the work of the music therapist 

and the development of ways for parents and children to 

communicate. Directed by Maxim Thompson, who was one 

of Professor Oldfield’s patients as a child. 

Aut Fr = Autism Friendly screening 

MC Tue 24 | 3.00, APH Thu 26 | 1.00 

THE PRUNING SEASON | CFF 15 

Iran, 2017, 80 mins. Persian with English subtitles. 

Director Loghman Khaledi 

Film director, scriptwriter and film editor Loqman 

Khaledi offers a fascinating character study of Ghassem 

Takdehgham, a man who believes he’s found a cure for 

cancer. While he wants to have his discovery officially 

recognised, he is also intensely suspicious of the motives of 

those who may be able to help him. The film offers a rich 

portrait of a devoted family man who genuinely wants to 

do good for others while feeling isolated and vulnerable 

within the wider society. We follow developments as the 

veracity of Ghassem’s claims undergo ever greater scrutiny 

and he finally finds someone he thinks he can trust with his 

secret formula. 

Print source Soureh Cinema Organization, Hozeh Honari 

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APH Mon 23 | 8.00 

APH Fri 20 | 3.00, EMMA Fri 20 | 9.00 

THE RED 

CIRCLE | PG 

Le Cercle rouge 

France/Italy, 1970, 140 mins. 

Director 

Starring 

Jean-Pierre Melville 

Alain Delon, Yves 

Montand, Gian Maria 

Volonté 

One of the greatest heist movies ever made, Melville’s impeccably stylish thriller stars 

Alain Delon as a master thief who – together with an alcoholic ex-cop and an escaped 

criminal – plans a breathtakingly daring robbery at an upmarket Parisian jewellery 

store. Melville’s aim was to shoot a film noir in colour, and he creates a murky, sinister 

world pervaded by existential gloom where the distinction between cops and villains 

is fatally blurred. Critic Peter Bradshaw has described Melville as ‘a poet of low-life 

crime’. With this screening of The Red Circle, Cambridge Film Festival pays tribute to 

the great director in his centenary year. 

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RESCUE UNDER 

FIRE | CFF 15 

Spain, 2017, 90 mins. Spanish/English with 


Director Adolfo Martinez 

Starring Ariadna Gil, Roberto Álamo, Raúl 

Mérida, Antonio Garrido, Ingrid 

García Jonsson, Jacobo Dicenta, 

Younes Bachir, Ismael Martínez 

Print source Eureka Entertainment 

The crew of a medical helicopter suffers an accident when helping a 

joint force of USA and United Nations troops under Spanish command 

division in Afghanistan. The Spanish army has only one night to organize 

the rescue of the crew and injured, but what seems routine turns into hell 

once they receive the order to rescue the helicopter as well. Things only 

get worse when during the night a huge concentration of Talibans begin 

surrounding them. 

UK 

PREMIERE 

APH Sat 21 | 3.00, APH Mon 23 | 12.15 

RESISTANCE IS LIFE | CFF 15 

Berxwedan Jîyane 

Turkey/USA, 2017, 73 mins. Kurdish with English subtitles. 

Director Apo W. Bazidi 

With Evlin Newroz, Aladdin Hemude, Mustafa Azad, 

Ennio Helbest, Diyala Silava Verhan 

From a refugee camp on the Turkish-Syrian border, an 

8-year-old girl, Evlin, characterizes the resistance of her 

homeland. Her heroes, the Kurdish female fighters, are 

defending the city of Kobane against the onslaught by ISIS 

militants. The power of the human spirit emanates through 

Evlin as she shows us that hope and resilience prevail 

even in the most tragic of circumstances. Evlin takes us on 

a journey that introduces the many different faces of the 

resistance on both sides of the border and provides a unique 

look at the extraordinary spirit behind the first major victory 

against ISIS. 

Print source Burn A Light Productions 

UK 

PREMIERE 

APH Sun 22 | 5.15, MC Mon 23 | 4.30 

SEX, PITY AND 

LONELINESS | CFF 15 

Einsamkeit und Sex und Mitleid 

Germany, 2017, 119 mins. German with English subtitles. 

Director Lars Montag 

Starring Bernhard Schütz, Jan Henrik Stahlberg, 

Friederike Kempter, Rainer Bock 

A look at German sensitivities: the film adaptation of Helmut 

Krausser’s bestseller Einsamkeit und Sex und Mitleid focuses 

on a motley crew of urbanites, all trying to cope with their 

romantic problems. Retired teacher Ecki runs an “anger 

room” where aggressive people can let off steam. Family 

man Robert models for artist Janine, who in turn has met 

supermarket manager Uwe on a dating site. His ex-wife, 

stressed-out doctor Julia, fights her loneliness by hiring 

callboy Vincent. Vincent is in a happy relationship with 

girlfriend Vivian, and to keep it that way they have come to 

an unusual agreement… 

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PREMIERE 

THE SQUARE | CFF 15 

France/Denmark/Sweden/USA , 2017, 

142 mins. English/Swedish/Danish with 


Director Ruben Östlund 

Starring Claes Bang, Elisabeth 

Moss, Dominic 

West, Terry Notary, 

Christopher Laesso 


APH Tue 24 | 5.20, APH Wed 25 | 10.00am 

Force Majeure director Ruben Östlund returns with a knife-sharp satire on art, 

culture and communication in the digital age. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2017 

Cannes Film Festival, The Square stars Claes Bang (The Bridge), Elisabeth Moss (The 

Handmaid’s Tale, Mad Men) and Dominic West (The Wire). Christian is a divorced but 

devoted father of two, and the respected curator of a contemporary art museum 

in Stockholm. He’s gearing up to launch their next show, ‘The Square’, a daring 

installation examining altruism and our duty to help others. However, his own views 

on social responsibility are put to the test when he becomes the victim of a scam, 

forcing him to question the world around him and his place in it. With pitch-perfect 

performances, inventive set pieces and a cutting deadpan wit, The Square is a 

hilarious, unique and often surreal look at idealism and cynicism in the modern world. 

STRANGLED | CFF 15 

Hungary, 2016, 118 mins. Hungarian with 


Director Árpád Sopsits 

Starring Károly Hajduk, Gábor 

Jászberényi, Zsolt Anger 

Print source Eureka Entertainment 

MC Tue 24 | 9.00, APH Thu 26 | 5.00 

Based on real-life events, this psycho-thriller is set in the provincial Hungary 

of the 1960s, when a series of atrocious murders shock the small town of 

Martfű. A psychotic killer is on the prowl, who continues to slaughter young 

women while an innocent man is wrongly accused and sentenced for crimes 

he could never have committed. A determined detective arrives on the scene 

and soon becomes obsessed with the case while under pressure from the 

prosecutor to see a man hang. Stuck in the suffocating social, political and 

psychological world of socialist Hungary, we soon find ourselves entangled 

in a web of intricate conspiracy and disturbing drama. 

UK 

PREMIERE 

APH Wed 25 | 5.00, APH Thu 26 | 2.30 

SON OF SOFIA | CFF 15 

Greece/Bulgaria,/France, 2017, 111 mins. 

Director Elina Psykou 

Starring Victor Khomut, Valery Tscheplanowa, 

Thanassis Papageorgiou, Artemios Havalits, 

Areti Seintaridou 

An unsettling coming-of-age drama, Son of Sofia marks Elina 

Psykou’s second feature. It is the summer of 2004 and the 

Olympic Games in Athens. 11-year-old Misha arrives from 

Russia to live with his mother, Sofia. What he doesn’t know 

is that there is a father waiting for him as well. While Greece 

is living the Olympic dream, Misha is violently catapulted 

into the adult world, riding on the dark side of his favorite 

fairy tales. 

Print source Heretic Outreach 

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PREMIERE 

APH Fri 20 | 3.10, Down Sun 22 | 6.30 

A TASTE OF INK | CFF 15 

Compte tes Blessures 

France, 2016, 80 mins. French with English subtitles. 

Director Morgan Simon 

Starring Kévin Azaïs, Monia Chokri, Nathan Willcocks 

Morgan Simon’s debut film A Taste of Ink centers on Vincent, 

a young man who expresses himself through his tattoos 

and as the lead singer of a post-hardcore metal band. Since 

his mother died, his relationship with his father grows from 

bad to worse as they interact with sentiments of reciprocal 

disappointment and anger. When Vincent meets his father’s 

new companion, a passionate love story blossoms and a 

tender and surprising Oedipal narrative shatters the beliefs 

of all those involved. 

Print source Versatile Films 

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UNTITLED | CFF 15 

Austria, 2017, 105 mins. German/English with 


Directors Michael Glawogger & 

Monica Willi 

Print source Autlook Films 

Emma Sat 21 | 8.30, APH Tue 24 | 1.00 

The great Austrian documentary maker Michael Glawogger had been filming 

around the world before he suddenly died. As he said of his plans “This 

film will give a view of the world that can only emerge by not pursuing any 

particular theme, by refraining from passing judgment, proceeding without 

aim. Drifting with no direction except one’s own curiosity and intuition.” Two 

years later Monica Willi completed the documentary from the film he shot 

and his diaries. The film is full of remarkable imaginary counterpointed by 

the philosophical diary entries, creating a remarkable view of our world. 

The Moving Cinema Sun 22 | 4.00 

A Race Against Time (Various) (90 mins) 

Standing Start (McDowall & Pretsell, 2012, 12 mins) 

A unique insight into a champion’s adrenaline and drive as 

track cyclist Craig MacLean trains for the Olympics. 

‘The David Millar Project’ Excerpts 

(Adrian McDowall & Finlay Pretsell, 2017) 

An extended trailer for the upcoming release of the feature 

documentary about the recently retired, and sometime 

controversial,sometime controversial, British Cyclist 

David Millar. 

The Impossible Hour (JØrgen Leth, 1974, 46 mins) 

Jørgen Leth’s study of Danish cyclist iOle Ritter’s attempts to 

recapture his world hour record. 

Role up (preferably on your bike) and be treated 

to a sumptuous selection of cycling short films 

and archive footage from the British Film 

Institute and East Anglian Film Archive. Ogle at 

the bikes of past and long for the open roads. 

The Moving Cinema 

Thu 26 | 4.30 

A Sunday in Hell 

(JØrgen Leth, 1977, 111 mins) 

Leth’s master class in documentary filmmaking 

is a poetic exposition of the 1976 Paris-Roubaix 

one-day classic bike race. Watch iconic cycle 

hero’s Eddy Merckx, Roger De Vlaeminck and 

Freddie Maerstens battle the cobbled farm tracks 

of northern France from the 20 celluloid film 

cameras and a helicopter. 

WILDERNESS | CFF 15 

UK, 2016, 84 mins. 

Director Justin John Doherty 

Starring Katharine Davenport, James 

Barnes, Sebastian Badarau, 

Bean Downes 

Print source Baraccoa Pictures 

Down Sat 21 | 8.30, APH Sun 22 | 10.00 

John is a touring jazz musician who has never met a woman like Alice. 

That’s because there aren’t many women like Alice. Their love is urgent and 

physical and they have made heady declarations of devotion to each other. 

Blowing out of the city like a whirlwind in the night, Alice and John flee to 

the coast. However, over the course of this romantic weekend getaway, they 

come into contact with strangers and friends and the bubble threatens to 

burst as they discover the vulnerabilities, flaws and manipulations that were 

previously masked by the blissful waves of new love. 


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Down Sun 22 | 9.00, APH Thu 26 | 12.45 

THIS IS OUR LAND | CFF 15 

Chez Nous 

France, 2017, 114 mins. French with English subtitles. 

Director Lucas Belvaux 

Starring Emilie Dequenne, André Dussolier, Guillaume 

Gouix, Catherine Jacob, Anne Marivin, Patrick 

Descamps 

This is Our Land is a film for our times. Not so loosely based 

on Marine Le Pen, Agnès Dorgelle is making a push for 

power. Pauline, a care assistant who is public-spirited and 

frustrated by the way her town is going, is encouraged to 

stand for election as the local town mayor. She is a ‘good’ 

person, while those around her clearly use her for their far 

right ambitions. Fundamentally asking the key questions 

about immigration and populism, the film combines 

excellent filmmaking from Lucas Belvaux, clever mise-enscène 

and great writing with matching performances. 

Print source Le Pacte 


APH Sun 22 | 5.30, APH Tue 24 | 12.30 

WONDERSTRUCK | CFF 15 


Director Todd Haynes 

Starring Oakes Fegley, Julianne Moore, Millicent 

Simmonds, Michelle Williams, Jaden 

Michael, Tom Noonan, James Urbaniak, Amy 

Hargreaves 

Based on Brian Selznick’s critically acclaimed novel, The 

latest film from Todd Haynes (Carol) focuses on Ben and 

Rose, two children from two different eras who secretly 

wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father 

he has never known, while Rose dreams of a mysterious 

actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. Bringing 

an ambitious and characteristically intelligent approach to 

the material, Haynes proves himself an incredibly versatile 

director and draws sensitive and committed performances 

from a cast of newcomers and veterans. 


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Glasgow-born Lynne Ramsay is widely reckoned to be one of the 

most original and ambitious directors of contemporary British 

independent cinema. CFF is proud to present her new feature You 

Were Never Really Here, which secured two awards and a sevenminute 

standing ovation at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. This 

special focus offers aficionados of Ramsay’s filmmaking the chance 

to revisit her past features while newcomers will be able to catch up 

with an intriguing and audacious body of work. 

RATCATCHER | 15 

UK, 1999, 94 mins. 

APH Mon 23 | 3.15 


Starring William Eadie, Tommy Flanagan, 

Mandy Matthews 

Lynne Ramsay’s brilliant debut feature, a compelling portrait 

of a young boy’s life in 1970s Glasgow, announced the arrival 

of a major new talent. Twelve-year-old James (William 

Eadie), growing up on a bleak housing estate, is struggling 

with guilt over his role in a terrible accident, while also 

striving to survive and be accepted in a world dominated 

by teenage gangs and brutality. Ramsay creates a series of 

spellbinding images, each one of which is integral to the plot 

and revealing of character. A film that will remain with you 

for years. 

Print source Park Circus 

MORVERN CALLAR | 15 

UK/Canada, 2001, 98 mins. 

APH Tue 24 | 3.10 


Starring Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, 

Jim Wilson 

Samantha Morton plays Morvern, a supermarket assistant 

in a small Scottish port, whose life changes radically when 

she wakes up one Christmas morning to find her boyfriend 

dead on the kitchen floor. He has left behind a suicide note 

and the manuscript of an unpublished novel dedicated to 

her … Lynne Ramsay once again demonstrates her mastery 

of mood and atmosphere in this adaptation of Alan Warner’s 

novel. Quirky and compelling, Morvern Callar confirmed her 

growing reputation as one of the most distinctive voices in 

British cinema. 

Print source Eone 

APH Wed 25 | 3.00 

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT 

KEVIN | 15 

UK/USA, 2011, 112 mins. 


Starring Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Rock Duer, 

Ezra Miller 

Kevin is the ultimate scary kid in this haunting evocation of 

a parent’s worst nightmare – a malevolent, uncontrollable 

child who turns out very badly indeed. Adapted from Lionel 

Shriver’s Orange Prize-winning novel about a mother of a 

boy who went on a killing spree at his high school, Lynne 

Ramsay’s subtle psychological thriller raises disturbing 

questions about nature versus nurture. Tilda Swinton is 

outstanding as Kevin’s anguished mother, while Ramsay’s 

intriguingly fractured, dream-like narrative conjures up an 

atmosphere of intense dread. 


APH Thu 26 | 8.30 

YOU WERE NEVER REALLY 

HERE | CFF 15 

UK/France/USA, 2017, 85 mins. 


Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, 

Alessandro Nivola, Alex Manette, John Doman, 

Judith Roberts 

After a number of aborted projects Lynne Ramsay delivers a 

powerful return to filmmaking with this brilliantly executed 

minimalist noir. Joe (Phoenix) is a Gulf War veteran and 

former FBI agent turned killer-for-hire, specialising in saving 

victims from child sex rings. When Nina, a US Senator’s 

daughter is kidnapped, he is contracted to dispense with 

the perpetrators and save the girl but an escape plan 

derails, unleashing a maelstrom of violence. A meticulous 

meditation on repression and abuse taken from the novel by 

Jonathan Ames, the film has drawn parallels with Taxi Driver 

but has a brilliance and originality all of its very own. The 

score is by Jonny Greenwood. 


01223 227 330

CAMERA 

Supported by 

Black Bread was the great success of our first 

Camera Catalonia six years ago, and so we are 

delighted to have secured Uncertain Glory, 

produced by the same creative team with Agustí 

Villaronga at the helm. 

Also in the line-up of the best new films from Catalonia 

this year are a very dark comedy with political 

undertones, a thrilling ensemble drama set in the 

Pyrenees, and a fascinating documentary about the 

state of the world and the future of humanity. These 

films are alive with different landscapes, both physical 

and emotional, as well as many challenging ideas, 

which we hope will leave you full of contemplation 

long after the end credits. 

ShortReel is the competition for 

student filmmakers in eastern and 

central England, run by the Arts 

Film Club in association with the 

Cambridge Film Festival. 

Students of all ages are invited to submit a short 

film in any genre or style. The winning film will 

be announced on Facebook and premiered at 

the Festival on Saturday 21st October, screening 

alongside festival main feature A Fantastic Woman. 

The winning filmmaker will also receive a £200 cash 

prize to assist them in their filmmaking. 

The shortlisted films for 2017 are: 

Eden 

Directed by Annabel Rogers 

of the Stephen Perse Foundation 

UK 

PREMIERE 

UK 

PREMIERE 

Nous 

directed by Ioanna Kyriazidou 

of Anglia Ruskin University 

APH Tue 24 | 5.15, APH Wed 25 | 2.45 

IN THE SAME BOAT | CFF U 

Catalonia, 2016, 72 mins. English/Italian/Spanish with 


Director Rudy Gnutti 

Starring Zygmunt Bauman, Alex Brendemühl, 

Nick Hanauer 

Director Rudy Gnutti analyses the effects of globalisation 

with the participation of important world figures like 

sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, the ex-President of Uruguay 

José Mújica, and economists Mauro Gallegati and Tony 

Atkinson amongst others. Produced by Pere Portabella, 

famous for his avant-garde cinema and his political 

documentaries, the film skillfully combines the opinions of 

the men on the street with the expert analysis of specialists. 

Some harsh truths are described, but there is also room for 

hope, it is in our hands. 

We hope to welcome some academics who have taken 

part in the film for a Q&A following the screening. 

Print source Films59 

THE ONE-EYED 

KING | CFF 15 

El Rei Borni 

Catalonia, 2016, 85 mins. Catalan with 


Director Marc Crehuet 

Starring Alain Hernández, Miki Esparbé, 

Betsy Túrnez, Ruth Llopis 

Print source Canary Islands Connection 

APH Sun 22 | 3.00 

A young man, who lost his eye to a rubber bullet in a street protest, and 

his partner are invited to a dinner party. The husband of the host is a riot 

policeman, who has fired rubber bullets whilst carrying out his duties. This is 

just one of the many awkward moments that arise during the dinner in this 

hilarious dark comedy, which touches on contemporary, political, and social 

issues, set against the backdrop of the financial crisis suffered in Southern 

Europe. The four leads are outstanding, but look out for the superb comedic 

skills of Miki Esparbé, who is one of the main actors of the two Barcelona 

films we screened last year. 

We are delighted to welcome director Marc Crehuet to the screening. 

A Woodturner’s Love 

directed by Aaron Marcus 

of Long Road Sixth Form College 

APH Sat 21 | 8.30 

The winning film is selected by a jury chaired by 

local filmmaker Stefan Georgiou, director of the 2013 

Cambridge Film Festival favourite, Dead Cat, and 

of the short film, Sexlife, which screened at 2015’s 

Festival. As well as writing for CNN International, 

Stefan has spent the last year directing a television 

pilot written by William Boyd for Endor Productions, 

is in pre-production of a short film and is currently 

developing his next feature film. 

THE NEXT SKIN | CFF 15 

La Propera Pell 

Catalonia, 2016, 103 mins. Catalan/French/Spanish with 


Directors Isaki Lacuesta & Isa Campo 

Starring Àlex Monner, Emma Suárez, Sergi López, 

Bruno Todeschini 

Most of the people living in the small town at the foot of 

the Pyrenees believe that Gabriel died in a tragic accident. 

Missing, presumed dead, he returns eight years later to find 

a family deeply affected by his disappearance. Starring Sergi 

Lopez, one of Catalonia’s most internationally renowned 

actors, and directed by real-life partners Isa Campos and Isaki 

Lacuesta, this thriller revolves around the question of Gabriel’s 

identity and examines the impact that his sudden return has 

on the lives of others. The gorgeous Pyrenean countryside 

has never looked as gloomy and dark as in this film. 

Print source Corte y Confección de Películas 

UNCERTAIN 

GLORY | CFF 18 

Incerta Glòria 

Catalonia, 2017, 115 mins. Catalan/Spanish 

with English subtitles. 

Director Agustí Villaronga 

Starring Núria Prims, Marcel Borràs, 

Oriol Pla, Bruna Cusí 

Print source Filmfactory 

APH Mon 23 | 8.00, APH Tue 24 | 10.15 

The film Black Bread was a big success in our first ever Camera Catalonia 

strand, and so we are very proud to present the new film made by the same 

director and production team, which again is set against the background 

of the Spanish Civil War. Uncertain Glory is an adaption of one of the most 

important works of Catalan literature, which was influenced by the writer’s 

own experiences during the tragic and fratricidal war. Filmmaker Villaronga 

once again shows his skills in depicting extreme human relations and how 

the instinct of survival amidst the ills of a war can bring out the worst in 

many individuals, whilst a few manage not to succumb to the physical and 

moral destructions that surrounds them everywhere. 

The Arts Film Club was formed in 2010 by a group of 

Cambridge film enthusiasts. It’s an informal, friendly 

community of film lovers who get together to explore 

and discuss some of the cinematic gems to be seen 

at the Arts Picturehouse. 

www.facebook.com/artsfilmclub 

www.facebook.com/shortreelfilmaward 

14 | CambridgeFilmFestival2017 | Camera Catalonia 

www.camfilmfest.com

Ignition: 

First Acts 

RUSKIN GALLERY 

Thursday 19 - 

Saturday 28 October 

Private view: 

Friday 20 October, 5.00pm 

(no ticket required) 

Screen South, the Ignition Network and Anglia 

Ruskin University, are proud to present a 

selection of First Acts short films. These films 

were commissioned by Screen South as part 

of the Ignition Random Acts program, 

which is funded by Arts Council England in 

collaboration with CH4 Random Acts. 

First Acts supports artists and filmmakers 

aged 16 – 24 to make 3 minute films that are 

bold expressions of creativity. This selection 

includes six films produced in partnership 

with the Cambridge School of Art. 

Cambridge African Film Festival 2017 

The Cambridge African Film Festival returns for its sixteenth edition, boasting a selection of films 

that display the extraordinary cinematic talent of Africans across the continent. 

Our sincerest thanks to Tony Jones and the Cambridge Film Trust without whom this would not have been possible. The 

Cambridge African Film Festival was also generously supported by the Smuts Memorial Fund, managed by the University 

of Cambridge in memory of Jan Christiaan Smuts; Trinity College, University of Cambridge; and Menelik Education. 

For more details about the 2017 Cambridge African Film Festival and related events, please see our website: 

cambridgeafricanfilmfestival.org.uk 

APH Tue 24 | 6.00 

Emma Sat 21 | 6.00 

APH Sun 22 | 6.00 

FÉLICITÉ | CFF 15 

France/Senegal, 2017, 129 mins. Lingala/French with 


Director Alain Gomis 

Starring Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu, Gaetan Claudia, 

Papi Mpaka 

Winner of the Jury Grand Prix at Berlinale, Félicité is the story 

of a proud woman working as a singer in a bar in Kinshasa. 

However, life comes crashing down when Félicité’s son 

has a terrible accident. She desperately tries to raise the 

money needed for his operation. A breathless tour through 

the impoverished streets and the wealthier districts of the 

Congolese capital ensues. Tabu, a regular at the bar, offers 

to help and she reluctantly accepts. Within the confines 

of Félicité’s sparse apartment, the trio form an unusual 

community, thrown together by fate. 

Print source MUBI 

KATI KATI | CFF 15 

Kenya, 2017, 75 mins. Swahili with English subtitles. 

Director Mbithi Masya 

Starring Nyokabi Gethaiga, Elsaphan Njora, Paul Ogola 

When Kaleche wakes up in the middle of the wilderness, she 

has no idea how she got there. She makes her way to a lodge 

called Kati Kati – a type of purgatory, not Heaven or Hell, but 

somewhere in between – where souls find themselves with 

no explanation or reason. No one knows how the residents 

of this bleak and isolated location, surrounded by African 

bushland, can ever leave. In this gathering of lost souls, each 

haunted by demons from their previous life, Kaleche begins 

to piece together the shards of her own life and the key to 

leaving Kati Kati. 

Print source The Festival Agency 

THE WOUND | CFF18 

Inxeba 

South Africa, 2017, 78 mins. Xhosa with English subtitles. 

Director John Trengove 

Starring Nakhane Touré, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay 

Xolani and Vija are the caregivers in traditional circumcision 

ceremonies in South Africa – each year they guide the young 

initiates into manhood. Xolani is asked by a family friend to 

be the caregiver for his son, Kwanda, because he has been 

behaving strangely at home in the city. However, Xolani has 

a secret as to why he attends the ceremony every year: his 

feelings for Vija go beyond that of a boyhood friendship. 

When Kwanda’s sexuality comes into question, Xolani is 

faced with difficult choices that threaten to upset this sacred 

ritual of manhood. 

Print source Peccadillo Pictures 

SPECIAL CLOSING 

NIGHT EVENT CAFF 

Wednesday, 25 October, 6.30pm 

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College 

In partnership 

with 

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FESTIVAL 

VAYA | CFF 15 

South Africa, 2016, 104 mins. 

MC Wed 25 | 6.45 

Director Akin Omotoso 

Starring Warren Masemola, Harriet Manamela, 

Sihle Xaba 

Three people board the train for Johannesburg – a man 

looking for a job, a boy seeking out his father’s body and a 

young woman tasked with delivering a child to her mother. 

They each go on their separate ways in the urban jungle, 

yet their paths are fated to cross in the different situations 

in which they find themselves. Cleverly weaving the three 

separate plots, Vaya is as much a celebration of the diversity 

of Johannesburg, as a beautifully gripping, deeply moving 

and often funny narrative about struggling for survival and 

dignity in the city. 

Print source Rififi Pictures 

APH Mon 23 | 6.00 

WULU | CFF 18 

Senegal/France, 2016, 95 mins. French/Bambara with 


Director Daouda Coulibaly 

Starring Ibrahim Koma, Inna Modja, Quim Gutiérrez 

Ladji is a bus driver, desperately working to raise himself and 

his sister, Aminata, who has been forced into prostitution, 

out of poverty. When he doesn’t get the promotion he was 

expecting, he decides to contact Driss, a drug dealer who 

owes him a favour. Ladji risks his life to carry drugs from 

Conakry to Bamako and quickly becomes the top trafficker 

in the drug underworld, giving him easy access to money, 

women and a life that he had never imagined possible. But 

the price to pay is high. Nominated for the Sutherland Award 

at the London Film Festival 2016. 

Print source Indie Sales 

THE FACES WE LOST 

Rwanda/UK, 2017, 60 mins. 

Director Piotr Cieplak 

A documentary about how Rwandans use personal and 

family photographs to remember and commemorate the 

loved ones they lost in the 1994 genocide. 

Followed by a Q&A with the director. 

Tickets only available through the Festival website. 

Print Source Piotr Cieplak 

Box office: 0871 902 5720 Cambridge African Film Festival | CambridgeFilmFestival2017 | 15

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SUN OCT 

Arts Picturehouse 

8.30 Scr 1 Battle of the Sexes 5 


12.00 Scr 1 Battle of the Sexes 5 

12.10 Scr 2 The Breadwinner 7 

12.15 Scr 3 tbc 

2.30 Scr 1 R+R The Wages of Fear 19 

3.00 Scr 2 Rescue Under Fire 10 

3.10 Scr 3 A Taste of Ink 11 

5.30 Scr 1 Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait 8 

5.10 Scr 2 Amateurs in Space 6 

5.45 Scr 3 King of the Belgians 8 

8.00 Scr 1 The Florida Project 7 

8.15 Scr 2 The New Fire 9 

10.15 Scr 1 Buena Vista Adios 7 

10.20 Scr 2 Short Hopes and Dreams 28 

10.30 Scr 3 Lates@APH Rift & The Distant Sea 25 

Emmanuel 

12.00 tbc 

2.15 tbc 

4.30 The Prince of Nothingwood 9 

7.00 R+R In Search of Colour: 19 

Kinemacolor Shorts 

9.00 Rescue Under Fire 10 


10.00 Scr 2 FFF We’re Going on a Bear Hunt 26 

11.00 Scr 2 FFF The Breadwinner 26 

12.30 Scr 1 Becoming Cary Grant 6 

12.45 Scr 3 King of the Belgians 8 

1.00 Scr 2 A157 6 

2.40 Scr 2 No Land’s Song 9 

3.00 Scr 1 R+R Mildred Pierce 19 

3.00 Scr 3 Resistance is Life 10 

5.15 Scr 1 Love, Cecil 8 

5.30 Scr 2 R+R Casanova & Stephen Horne 19 

6.00 Scr 3 micro Electro-Pythagoras 23 

8.00 Scr 1 A Fantastic Woman & ShortReel Award 7 

8.30 Scr 2 CAT The Next Skin 14 

8.15 Scr 3 Short Paying Attention 28 

10.30 Scr 1 Lates@APH Tonight She Comes 25 

& Smear 

10.30 Scr 3 micro Kinky Gerlinky 23 

10.40 Scr 2 The New Fire 9 

Emmanuel 

11.00 tbc 

1.00 India India In A Day 18 

3.00 FFF Neil Brand - Comedy for Kids & Adults 26 

6.00 CAFF Kati Kati 15 

8.30 Untitled 12 

Timmy Hele Room 

All day VR Wonderful You 21 

Downing 

11.00 Amateurs In Space 6 

1.00 micro Programme 1 22 


6.00 Kékszakállú 8 

8.30 Wilderness 12 


10.00 Scr 1 R+R My Fair Lady 19 

10.00 Scr 2 FFF Kate in Oz 26 

10.30 Scr 3 Kékszakállú 8 

11.00 Scr 2 FFF Moana Sing-a-long 26 

1.00 Scr 3 Buena Vista Adios 7 

1.15 Scr 2 The Florida Project 7 

3.00 Scr 1 CAT The One-Eyed King 14 

3.15 Scr 3 It’s Not Yet Dark 7 

3.20 Scr 2 Cause of Death: Unknown 7 

5.15 Scr 3 Sex, Pity and Loneliness 10 

5.30 Scr 1 Wonderstruck 12 

6.00 Scr 2 CAFF The Wound 15 

7.45 Scr 3 tbc 

8.00 Scr 1 The Killing of a Sacred Deer 8 

8.15 Scr 2 The Ballad of Shirley Collins 6 

10.00 Scr 3 Wilderness 12 

10.30 Scr 1 The Prince of Nothingwood 9 

10.30 Scr 2 Lates@APH Fashionista 24 

& The Stylist 

Emmanuel 

10.00 tbc 

12.30 tbc 

3.00 India Shiraz : A Romance of India 18 

& John Sweeney 

5.15 A 157 6 

7.00 R+R The Woman that Men Yearn For 19 

9.00 Anishoara 6 


All day VR World War I: Another Perspective 21 

Downing 

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4.00 Short Sporting Chance 28 

6.30 A Taste of Ink 11 

9.00 This is Our Land 12 

Heong Gallery 

3.00 micro Round Table Discussion 22 


12.00 Local Red Balloon Learning Centre 30 

1.00 Local Sawston/Hinchingbrooke Prog 30 

2.00 Local Local Independent Filmmakers 30 

4.00 Cycling A Race Against Time 12 

6.00 R+R The Wages of Fear 19 

9.00 India India in a Day 18 

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FREE of charge. 

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certificated by the BBFC, 

some have been given an 

advisory certificate from 

Cambridge Film Festival. 

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10.00 Scr 1 Love, Cecil 8 

10.00 Scr 2 FFF The Red Balloon 26 

10.30 Scr 3 Operation Syncopation (Aut Fr Only) 9 

11.00 Scr 2 FFF The Lego Ninjago Movie 26 

12.15 Scr 1 Resistance is Life 10 

1.15 Scr 2 Short Sporting Chance 28 

12.45 Scr 3 A Fantastic Woman 7 

3.00 Scr 1 Flicker + Pulse & A Year 7 

Along the Abandoned Road 

3.15 Scr 2 Ramsay Ratcatcher 13 

3.30 Scr 3 Operation Syncopation 9 

5.00 Scr 1 Menashe 8 

5.30 Scr 2 India Charulata 18 

6.00 Scr 3 CAFF Wulu 15 

7.30 Scr 1 120 BPM 6 

8.00 Scr 2 CAT Uncertain Glory 14 

8.00 Scr 3 The Red Circle (with Harriet Kelsall 10 

Bespoke Jewellery) 

10.15 Scr 2 Lates@APH Habit 25 

10.30 Scr 1 Lates@APH Rift 25 

10.30 Scr 3 Short Beneath the Surface 29 

Emmanuel 

12.00 It’s Not Yet Dark 7 

2.00 R+R Mildred Pierce 19 

4.30 No Land’s Song 9 

6.30 R+R The Truth 19 

9.00 Korean Battleship Island 21 


All day VR Second Date 21 


11.00 Local Queers in Shorts 30 

1.00 Local Best of Reel Women 30 

2.00 Local Sawston/Hinchingbrooke Prog 30 

4.30 Sex,Pity and Loneliness 10 

7.00 India The Cinema Travellers 18 

9.00 Conditional Release 7 


10.00 Scr 1 The Killing of a Sacred Deer 8 

10.00 Scr 2 FFF The Infamous Chalk Girl 27 

10.30 Scr 3 Short Hopes And Dreams 28 

11.00 Scr 2 FFF The Eagle Huntress 27 

12.30 Scr 1 Wonderstruck 12 

1.00 Scr 2 Short Paying Attention 28 

1.00 Scr 3 Untitled 12 

3.00 Scr 1 Cause of Death: Unknown 7 

3.10 Scr 2 Ramsay Morvern Callar 13 

3.15 Scr 3 India The Cloud-Capped Star 18 

5.15 Scr 2 CAT In the Same Boat 14 

5.20 Scr 1 The Square 11 

6.00 Scr 3 CAFF Félicité 15 

7.30 Scr 2 India Ask the Sexpert 18 

8.30 Scr 1 Journeyman 8 

8.30 Scr 3 Korean Midnight Runners 21 

10.00 Scr 2 Short Good Grief 29 

10.15 Scr 1 CAT Uncertain Glory 14 

10.45 Scr 3 Lates@APH Well 25 


11.00 Local Queers in Shorts 30 

1.00 Local Local Independent Filmmakers 30 

2.00 Local Best of Reel Women 30 

3.00 The Pruning Season 9 

4.30 Becoming Cary Grant 6 

6.45 The Desert Bride 7 

9.00 Strangled 11 

Romsey Mill 

10.30am FFF The Gruffalo & 27 

The Gruffalo’s Child 


10.00 Scr 1 The Square 11 

10.00 Scr 2 FFF Peppa Pig 27 

10.15 Scr 3 120 BPM 6 

11.00 Scr 2 FFF Snow White and the 27 

Seven Dwarfs 

1.00 Scr 1 Psycho (Free To 78/52 ticket holders) 6 

1.00 Scr 2 Anishoara 6 

1.15 Scr 3 Flicker + Pulse & A Year 7 

Along the Abandoned Road 

2.45 Scr 3 CAT In the Same Boat 14 

3.00 Scr 1 Mountains May Depart 8 

3.00 Scr 2 Ramsay We Need To Talk 13 

About Kevin 

5.00 Scr 3 Son Of Sofia 11 

5.15 Scr 2 Short Next Generation Tiger Shorts 29 

6.00 Scr 1 78/52 6 

8.30 Scr 1 Loveless 8 

8.00 Scr 2 Manifesto 8 

7.15 Scr 3 Conditional Release 7 

11.00 Scr 1 Lates@APH Tonight She Comes 25 

& Smear 

10.00 Scr 2 Lates@APH The Forest of 24 

the Lost Souls 

9.30 Scr 3 Korean The Net 21 


10.00 tbc 

12.00 tbc 

2.00 Menashe 8 

4.30 Short Beneath the Surface 29 

6.45 CAFF Vaya 15 


10.00 Scr 1 Loveless 8 

10.00 Scr 2 FFF The Fantastic Flying Books 27 

of Mr Morris Lessmore 

10.15 Scr 3 The Desert Bride 7 

11.00 Scr 2 FFF The Red Turtle 27 

12.30 Scr 3 India The Cinema Travellers 18 

12.45 Scr 1 This is Our Land 12 

1.00 Scr 2 The Pruning Season 9 

2.30 Scr 3 Son of Sofia 11 

3.00 Scr 2 Mountains May Depart 8 

3.15 Scr 1 R+R The Truth 19 

5.00 Scr 3 Strangled 11 

6.00 Scr 1 Surprise Film 5 

6.15 Scr 2 Dawson City, Frozen Time 7 


8.30 Scr 1 You Were Never Really Here 5 




10.00 Short Next Generation Tiger Shorts 29 

12.00 Short Good Grief 29 

2.15 India Ask the Sexpert 18 

4.30 Cycling A Sunday in Hell 12 

Romsey Mill 

10.30am FFF The Fantastic Flying Books of 27 

Mr Morris Lessmore & Danger Mouse 

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THE ARTS PICTUREHOUSE 

38-39 St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge, 

CB2 3AR | www.picturehouses.co.uk 

The Arts Picturehouse screens a year-round 

programme of the best in new and classic 

cinema over three screens (including one THXcertificated 

for best quality sound and another 

RealD 3D enabled). All screens are licensed, 

so you can take your drink from the café-bar 

in with you. You do not have to be a member 

to view films at the Arts Picturehouse, but if 

you are you’ll receive discounts on tickets, free 

preview screenings and priority booking for 

the Festival. 

EMMA 

EMMANUEL COLLEGE 

St Andrews Street, Cambridge CB2 3AP 

www.emma.cam.ac.uk 

Founded in 1584, Emmanuel College is one of 

the larger colleges in Cambridge and boasts 

beautiful gardens and building ranging from 

the medieval to the very modern. Perfectly 

located on St Andrew’s Street opposite the Arts 

Picturehouse, screenings and events take place 

in the Queen’s Building auditorium, which was 

voted ‘Building of the Year’ when it opened 

in 1995. 

DOWN 

DOWNING COLLEGE 

Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1DQ 

www.dow.cam.ac.uk 

Downing College was founded in 1800 by the 

bequest of Sir George Downing. Known as the 

‘newest of the old and oldest of the new’, it is 

set amidst 20 acres of magnificent grounds 

in the heart of the city. Situated on Regent 

Street, it is just a stone’s throw from the Arts 

Picturehouse. Screenings will take place in 

the new Howard Theatre, which combines the 

latest technologies with traditional classic 

architecture. 

HG 

HEONG GALLERY 

Downing College | www.dow.cam.ac.uk/ 

cultural-life/heong-gallery 

The Heong Gallery of modern and 

contemporary art was opened in Spring 2016. 

The art gallery is situated within Downing 

College in Regent Street, near to the Arts 

Picturehouse. The Gallery is named after 

Alwyn Heong, an alumnus of Downing College, 

who is a passionate supporter of the visual 

arts and a collector. The venue will host free 

microcinema events during the festival. The 

Gallery is open 12 noon to 5pm (Saturday 21st 

October 10am to 6pm). 

MC 

THE MOVING CINEMA 

Anywhere, the UK, but for the Festival at 

Parker’s Piece | @TheMovingCinema 

The Moving Cinema returns to the Cambridge 

Film Festival. An amazing 18 wheel, 36 

tonne lorry which at the push of a button 

transforms intoa fully equipped, temperature 

controlled 100 seat cinema. During the 

Festival the Moving Cinema will be located 

on Parker’s Piece, less than 300 yards from 

the Arts Picturehouse and will offer a truly 

extraordinary cinema experience. 

Book tickets in advance for ALL venues through the Arts Picturehouse.

Shiraz, 1928 

Join us for a series of films from India specially 

curated by the Cambridge Film Festival for 

India Unboxed and the Festival of Ideas. 

From classics by the old masters of Indian 

cinema through to the best contemporary 

documentaries, this series is a great 

introduction to the film of India - 

beyond Bollywood! 

APH Tue 24 | 7.30, MC Thu 26 | 2.15 

APH Mon 23 | 5.30 

ASK THE SEXPERT | CFF 15 

USA, 2017, 75 mins. English, Hindi. 

Director Vaishali Sinha 

The highly popular 93-year-old sex advice columnist, Dr. 

Watsa, writes for a daily newspaper in Mumbai. Despite sex 

being a taboo topic in that country, the column’s brand of 

non-moralistic advice and humor has emboldened many 

to write in with their questions, the vast majority of whom 

seek basic information. Director Vaishali Sinha brilliantly 

captures Dr. Watsa’s treasured personality with compassion 

and humor, promoting the importance of sexual pleasure, 

consent and information as a passage to gender equality 

and health. 

Print source Coast to Coast Films 

CHARULATA | U 

India, 1964, 117 mins. Bengali with English subtitles. 

Director Satyajit Ray 

Starring Madhabi Mukherjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, 

Sailen Mukherjee 

Set in late 19th-century Bengal, this adaptation of a novella 

by Rabindranath Tagore boasts an unforgettable heroine: 

Charulata - beautiful, intellectual and brimming with vitality. 

Neglected by her politics-obsessed husband, she feels lonely 

and trapped in their vast, ornate mansion, but things change 

when her husband’s charming younger cousin, an aspiring 

poet, comes to stay. He encourages her literary talent and 

she soon discovers a soulmate and maybe something more. 

With ravishing cinematography by Subrata Mitra and a 

wistful score by Satyajit Ray himself, this was the great 

director’s favourite of all his films. 

Print source BFI 

THE CINEMA 

TRAVELLERS | CFF PG 

India, 2016, 96 mins. Hindi/Marathi with 


Directors Shirley Abraham & Amit 

Madheshiya 

Print source Cave Pictures India 

MC Mon 23 | 7.00, APH Thu 26 | 12.30 

Cannes prize-winning The Cinema Travellers is a journey with the traveling 

cinemas of India, which bring the wonder of the movies to faraway villages 

annually. Seven decades on, as their lorries and cinema projectors crumble 

and film reels become scarce, their audiences are lured by slick digital 

technology. Filmed over five years, The Cinema Travellers accompanies 

a shrewd exhibitor, a benevolent showman and a maverick projector 

mechanic who bear a beautiful burden: to keep the last traveling cinemas of 

the world running. 

An intimate, poignant documentary, recalling Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1988 

Oscar winner Cinema Paradiso in its effusive love of 20th-century celluloid 

splendor. NICK SCHAGER, VARIETY 

APH Tue 24 | 3.15 

Emma Sat 21 | 1.00, MC Sun 22 | 9.00 

THE CLOUD-CAPPED STAR | PG 

Meghe Dhaka Tara 

India, 1960, 126 mins. Bengali with English subtitles. 

Director Ritwik Ghatak 

Starring Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Gita De 

Ritwik Ghatak (1925 - 1976), the maverick Bengali director, 

has been described by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum as ‘one 

of the most neglected major filmmakers in the world’. Set in 

Calcutta, his most famous film centres on a sensitive young 

woman who sacrifices herself to support her struggling 

family, refugees from East Bengal following the Partition of 

India. By contrast, her elder brother, a would-be singer, puts 

personal ambition before family duty. With striking imagery 

counterpointed by a richly imaginative soundtrack, Ghatak’s 

masterpiece is an undisputed classic of world cinema. Its 

searing depiction of the refugees’ plight is now more relevant 

than ever. 


INDIA IN A DAY | CFF PG 

India, 2016, 86 mins. English/Hindi with English subtitles. 

Director Richie Mehta 

On October 10, 2015, Ridley Scott, Anurag Kashyap, Richie 

Mehta and Google invited the people of India to share their 

stories about life in an evolving India - from the ordinary 

to the extraordinary; personal to profound. The result: 

India’s first fully crowdsourced feature film. India In A Day is 

a story about the lives, loves, hopes, dreams, aspirations 

and worries of people in a country that is in the throes of 

dramatic technological, economic, political and sociological 

change. A lyrical portrait of a country, it gives a heartfelt 

image of the people across a vast nation with their joys 

and troubles. 

Print source Scott Free Films 

SHIRAZ: A ROMANCE 

OF INDIA | CFF PG 

UK/Germany/India, 1928, 105 mins. Silent 

with English intertitles. 

Director Franz Osten 

Starring Himansu Rai, Charu Roy, 

Seeta Devi 


Emma Sun 22 | 3.00 

Newly restored by the BFI, Shiraz comes to Cambridge straight from its 

Archive Gala presentation at the BFI London Film Festival. Based on the 

17th-century love story that inspired the building of the Taj Mahal, this 

pioneering silent was directed by a German but filmed entirely in India with 

an all-Indian cast. Himansu Rai stars as Shiraz, a humble potter’s son who 

is deeply enamoured of his beautiful foster-sister. When she is kidnapped 

and sold in slavery to a Mughal prince, he rushes to her rescue … With its 

spellbinding images and touching performances, this spectacular romance 

still enchants us today. 

With live accompaniment by John Sweeney. 

18 | CambridgeFilmFestival2017 | India Unboxed 

www.camfilmfest.com

This year’s showcase of magnificent 

new prints from archives around the 

world features some of the greatest 

stars of the silent and sound eras. 

Don’t miss Brigitte Bardot on trial for 

her life, Marlene Dietrich in her first 

real starring role, Joan Crawford at 

the pinnacle of her career, or the 

legendary Ivan Mosjoukine as the 

world’s most notorious seducer. 

Silent films will all have live 

musical accompaniment. 

Look out for the following archive films screening in other CFF strands: 

Shiraz: A Romance of India 

Based on the 17th-century love story that inspired 

the building of the Taj Mahal, this spectacular silent 

was filmed entirely in India with an all-Indian cast. 

With live accompaniment by John Sweeney. | Sun 22, 

see India Unboxed, p. 21 

Comedy for Kids with Neil Brand 

Featuring some of the funniest comics in silent 

cinema. | Sun 22, see Family Film Festival, p. 26 

The Red Circle | Mon 23, see p. 10 

Becoming Cary Grant | Sat 21 & Tue 24, 

see p. 6 

Dawson City, Frozen Time | Thu 26, 

see p. 7 

Charulata | Mon 23, see India Unboxed, p. 21 

The Cloud-Capped 

Star | Tue 24, see India Unboxed, p. 21 

EMMA Fri 20 | 7.00 

IN SEARCH OF COLOUR: 

KINEMACOLOR SHORTS | 12A 

UK & Italy, 1907-14, 83 mins. Silent with English 

& Italian intertitles. 

‘Kinemacolor’, invented in 1906 by G. A. Smith of Brighton, 

was the cinema’s first successful colour system, flourishing 

commercially until 1917. Until recently, examples of the 

process were considered all but lost. But earlier this year – 

thanks to some exciting finds – a remarkable selection of 

newly restored shorts was unveiled at Cinema Ritrovato, 

Bologna’s renowned festival of archive film. This programme 

affords haunting glimpses of the past in exquisite, muted 

colour, including ravishing views of Lake Garda, children 

performing a drill at a Surrey Orphanage, and a spectacular 

parade of elephants from the Delhi Durbar of 1911. 

With live accompaniment by Stephen Horne. 

Print source Cineteca di Bologna/BFI 

APH Sat 21 | 5.30 

CASANOVA | PG 

France, 1927, 159 mins. Silent with French intertitles and 


Director Alexandre Volkoff 

Starring Ivan Mosjoukine, Diana Karenne, Jenny Jugo 

A sensational highlight of French silent cinema, this 

sumptuous epic was directed by the Russian émigré 

Alexandre Volkoff who assisted Abel Gance on Napoléon. 

Ivan Mosjoukine (‘the Russian Valentino’) stars as the 18thcentury 

adventurer whose amorous escapades take him 

from decadent Venice, via Austria, to the Imperial Court of 

St Petersburg where he flirts outrageously with Catherine 

the Great. Shot in black and white with gorgeous colour 

sequences, this wild and witty extravaganza culminates 

in eye-popping scenes of the Venice Carnival filmed on 

location, with crowds of masked revellers, gondolas and 

fireworks. Newly restored by the Cinémathèque Française. 

With live accompaniment by Stephen Horne. 

Print source Cinémathèque Française 

Emma Sun 22 | 7.00 

THE WOMAN THAT MEN 

YEARN FOR | CFF PG 

Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt 

Germany, 1929, 75 mins. Silent with German intertitles and 

English subtitles 

Director Kurt (Curtis) Bernhardt 

Starring Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner 

Marlene Dietrich’s first real starring role, pre-dating The 

Blue Angel, was as the femme fatale in this darkly romantic 

German thriller. The mysterious Stascha is bound to her 

lover, the sinister Dr Karoff, by a terrible secret. But one night, 

on a train, she catches the eye of a young man who abandons 

everything, including his new bride, to pursue her. A riotous 

New Year’s Eve party – conjured up with Pabstian panache 

– is the scene of mounting tension between Stascha and her 

two obsessive admirers. Director Kurt (Curtis) Bernhardt was 

later renowned for his powerful Hollywood melodramas. 

With live accompaniment by Neil Brand. 

Print source Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung 

APH Sat 21 | 3.00, Emma Mon 23 | 2.00 

MILDRED PIERCE | PG 

USA, 1945, 111 mins. 

Director Michael Curtiz 

Starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, 

Ann Blyth 

Adapted from a novel by James M. Cain, this great noir 

melodrama is dominated by Joan Crawford’s Oscar-winning 

performance in the title role. Mildred, a hard-working 

Los Angeles housewife, will do literally anything for Veda, 

her selfish, snobbish daughter. Casting aside her useless 

husband, Mildred builds up her own business empire, 

enabling Veda to scale the social ladder. Crawford is all 

sex appeal, shoulder pads, steely ambition and slavish 

self-sacrifice, but can a woman really succeed on her own? 

This immaculate 4K restoration from the Criterion Collection 

does full justice to Ernest Haller’s superb cinematography. 


MY FAIR LADY | U 

USA, 1964, 170 mins. 

APH Sun 22 | 10.00am 

Director George Cukor 

Starring Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn, 

Stanley Holloway 

Screening in a new 4K digital print, this is the multiple Oscarwinning 

film version of one of the best loved musicals of all 

time: Lerner and Loewe’s celebrated adaptation of Bernard 

Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’. Rex Harrison stars as the grumpy 

Professor Henry Higgins, a phonetics expert who takes on 

the challenge of transforming common Cockney flower girl 

Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) into a presentable member 

of Edwardian high society. With costumes and art direction 

by Cecil Beaton and a terrific line-up of irresistible hit songs, 

it’s a veritable feast for eyes and ears. 

See a fascinating documentary about Cecil Beaton’s life 

and work, Love, Cecil, page 8. 


Emma Mon 23 | 6.30, APH Thu 26 | 3.15 

THE TRUTH | CFF 15 

La Vérité 


Director Henri-Georges Clouzot 

Starring Brigitte Bardot, Sami Frey, Charles Vanel 

Brigitte Bardot gives one of her best-ever performances as 

Dominique, a rebellious, free-spirited young woman on trial 

for the murder of her lover, a brilliant classical musician. 

Compelling court room scenes show how the sensual, funloving 

Dominque is judged not only on the evidence, but for 

her refusal to conform to the prevailing hypocritical morality. 

Through vivid flashbacks, conjuring up the bedsits, cafés and 

student life of Paris, she emerges as a surprisingly complex 

character. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot commented: 

‘I wanted to show the constant ambiguity of things and that 

the same event can be shown from several different points of 

view.’ Newly restored in 4K by Sony Pictures Entertainment. 


THE WAGES 

OF FEAR | PG 

Le Salaire de la peur 

France, 1953, 153 mins. French/Spanish with 


Director Henri-Georges Clouzot 

Starring Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, 

Véra Clouzot 


APH Fri 20 | 2.30, MC Sun 22 | 6.00 

Arguably the most suspenseful movie ever made, Clouzot’s sardonic thriller 

combines acute psychological insight with brilliantly staged action. In a South 

American backwater of hellish poverty, an exploitative US oil company offers 

four desperate men $2000 each to drive two trucks of highly explosive nitroglycerine 

to a distant oil well where fire is raging. Nerves of steel are required to 

watch their excruciating progress across 300 miles of dangerously rough terrain 

where the slightest jolt could mean sudden extinction. Cut for its US release 

because of alleged anti-Americanism, Clouzot’s masterpiece is a devastating 

indictment of capitalist exploitation and of human folly in general. 

This new 4K restoration, including five minutes of previously unseen material, 

is released by the BFI on DVD/Blu-ray on 23 October. 

Box office: 0871 902 5720 Restorations and Rediscoveries | CambridgeFilmFestival2017 | 19

MAKING THE VIRTUAL REAL 

VR at the 2017 Cambridge Film Festival | Saturday 21st to Monday 23rd October 

Curator 

Catherine Allen 

During the 2017 Cambridge Film Festival we will 

feature virtual reality (VR) for the first time, showing 

four extraordinary works over three days; works that 

demonstrate the current capability of immersive 

technology in the hands of pioneering creatives. 

We’ll offer audiences a chance to experience a range of 

boundary-pushing virtual experiences. 

The programme has been curated by 

Catherine Allen, founder of Limina 

Immersive and producer of two of the 

BBC’s first VR experiences. Catherine 

is widely regarded as a VR pioneer 

and thought leader. She is part of the 

BAFTA VR advisory team, sitting on 

the education committee, and has 

judged VR for both Sheffield Doc Fest 

and Raindance film festivals. Catherine 

produced one of the BBC’s first VR 

documentaries, Easter Rising: Voice of a 

Rebel, which was described by Broadcast 

Magazine as ‘genre-defining’. Before 

VR, Catherine worked at acclaimed 

educational app publisher, Touch Press; 

winning a BAFTA on the Disney Animated 

app, with Disney Interactive. 

In order to create a sense of an audience for what remains an individual experience, we are setting up five Oculus Rift systems in our 

‘screening room’ at Emmanuel College. Each day will have its own dedicated VR experience. That VR piece will be ticketed, and screened 

hourly – offering you a chance to experience this emerging medium and then share your thoughts afterwards, 

traditional style in Picturehouse Bar. The programme includes a range of challenging works that stretch the 

creative boundaries of this emerging medium. Restricted to 18 plus only. Please note that Monday’s piece, 

Second Date, includes particularly adult content. 

Venue: Timmy Hele Room, Emmanuel College 

Sessions at 11.00 | 12.00 | 1.00 | 2.00 | 3.00 | 4.00 | 5.00 | 6.00 | 7.00 

All session tickets bookable in advance | £5.00 

Audience must arrive promptly at session time to allow for 

briefing. No latecomers will be admitted. An experienced 

VR host will guide the audience through the experience. 

Official partner of the LIMINA Immersive VR Experience 

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VR headset with 

Adder Technology 

Enter our competition for the chance of 

winning a VR headset by scanning the QR 

code below and filling in the form. 

Winners will be announced 31/10/2017. 

For full terms and conditions, see 

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SATURDAY 21 OCTOBER 

SUNDAY 22 OCTOBER 

MONDAY 23 OCTOBER 

PREVIEW 

SCREENING 

WONDERFUL YOU VR | CFF 18 2017 

BDH Immersive 

Narrated by Academy Award nominee Samantha Morton, 

Wonderful You is a virtual reality journey through the strange 

world of your developing senses; sight, sound, touch, taste 

& smell. Wonderful You is your story – a journey through your 

epic first 9 months of life in your mother’s womb. As you 

grow from a tiny cluster of cells to a fully formed baby, the 

five senses that will shape your destiny develop and form, 

connecting you to the world around you. Safe in the womb, 

you hear music in your dreams, you taste what your mother 

eats, you see sunlight and colour, your hands grasp what 

they touch. 

With original music composed by Timo Baker, Wonderful You 

is an immersive, mind-blowing experience taking you back 

to a time and a place all of us have visited, but none of us 

can remember. (Preview by kind permission) 

www.wonderfulyouvr.com 

WORLD WAR 1: ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE 

Experience events from a century ago with a different perspective - as a rebel in the Easter Rising 

of Dublin and as a Caribbean soldier. Both of these artistic, poetic works blur the lines between 

documentary and drama, using theatrical techniques and extensive research to craft experiences 

thing bring a fresh angle to historic events. 

Easter Rising: Voice 

of a Rebel | CFF 18 2016, 13 mins. 

By BBC Learning, Crossover Labs and 

VRTOV 

A historical VR experience that’s part documentary, 

part virtual theatre. Step into one man’s memories 

and journey back to a moment that changed Irish 

history forever: the 1916 Easter Rising. The story 

revolves around a tape recording of Willie McNeive 

from the 1970s. In these recordings, Willie talks 

about his involvement as a Republican rebel in the 

Easter Rising 60 years before. Each scene in this 

story has a fixed point of view – the viewer can look 

around a full 360-degree environment and see the 

action while listening to recollections of the events 

in various locations. 

Empire Soldiers | CFF 18 

2017, 5 mins. 

By Metro-Boulot-Dodo 

Empire Soldiers VR tells the compelling stories 

of the forgotten Caribbean soldiers of World War 

One. You will be transported back in time to 1918 

alongside soldiers returning from the front line. You 

will hear the captivating stories of the battlefield 

and share the emotional experience of the return 

home. Award winning arts organisation Metro- 

Boulot-Dodo create innovative arts experiences 

blending heritage and new technology to inspire, 

inform and entertain. 

Empire Soldiers VR is supported by Arts Council 

England and Threshold Studios. 

SECOND DATE | CFF 18 


By Jennifer Lyon Bell, Blue Artichoke Films and 

Condition One 

One of VR’s most exciting qualities is its powerful ability to 

foster feelings of intimacy. Second Date demonstrates what 

VR is capable of in terms of showing the nuances of human 

relationships, sensuality and sexuality. Set on an Amsterdam 

houseboat, Second Date is an observational, lighthearted, 

unscripted portrait of two young people fumbling towards 

ecstasy. Trying to find common ground, their conversation 

veers from clumsy to joyous and back again - until they 

finally start connecting for real. 

With thanks to our equipment 

sponsor, iDocs 

UK 

PREMIERE 

Supported by 

EMMA Mon 23 | 9.00 

THE BATTLESHIP 

ISLAND | CFF 15 

South Korea, 2017, 132 mins. Korean/Japanese with 


Director Ryoo Seung-Wan 

Starring Hwang Jung-Min, Song Joong-Ki, So Ji- 

Sub, Lee Jung-Hyun, Lee Kyoung-Young, 

Kim Su-An 

Audacious maverick action director Ryoo Seung-wan 

returns to the big screen with The Battleship Island. As 

World War II nears its end, at the site of a huge coalmine 

on the small island of Hashima (nicknamed “Battleship 

Island”), tensions run high between the Japanese 

soldiers, who maintain order with shocking cruelty, and 

roughly 400 Korean people who were tricked or forced 

into working there. Then, just as the island’s dark secrets 

are revealed, the Koreans plot a dramatic escape. 

Print source JBG Pictures 

APH Tue 24 | 8.30 

MIDNIGHT RUNNERS | CFF 15 

South Korea, 2017, 108 mins. Korean with English 

subtitles. 

Director Kim Ju-hwan 

Starring Seo-joon Park, Ha-Neul Kang, Ha-seon Park 

The story of two Korean National Police University 

students, Ki-joon (Park Seo-joon) and Hee-yeol 

(Kang Ha-neul), who witness a kidnapping. When the 

authorities reach a dead end due to lack of evidence 

and frustrating bureaucratic obstacles, they decide to 

embark on their own amateur investigation, which gets 

them into all sorts of hilarious trouble. 

Print source JBG Pictures 

APH Wed 25 | 9.30 

THE NET | CFF 15 

South Korea, 2016, 114 mins. Korean with English 

subtitles. 

Director Kim Ki-duk 

Starring Ryoo Seung-bum, Young-min Kim, 

Guyhwa Choi 

A fisherman boat breaks down and drifts to South Korea. 

After enduring many brutal investigations, he eventually 

gets sent back to North Korea. But before leaving South 

Korea, he sees how developed the country is and the 

contrasting dark sides of it. He realizes that economic 

development does not spell happiness for the people. 

Back home, he receives the same investigations as he 

did in the south, and feels great sadness of being a 

human trapped in the ideology between the two divided 

countries. 

Regardless of will, humans get stuck in the political 

ideology of the places they are born in. Through the 

fisherman who suffers pain going to South Korea and 

back to North Korea on a broken down boat, we see 

how we are sacrificed by the divided Korean peninsula. 

And how the division creates great sadness… 

KIM KI-DUK 

Print source FINECUT

microcinema is supported by 

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Programme One 

Down Sat 21 | 1.00 CFF 15 

I AM A SPY 

2014, 23 mins. 

Director Sarah Wood 

It was only in the twentieth century we needed papers to 

have an identity. Kafka’s Joseph K scrabbled in his pocket for 

something better than a bicycle license to prove who he was 

in the brave new world where official documents separate 

those who belong from those who are not allowed to belong. 

The borders of the new nation state offered frames for 

subterfuge. What happened on one side of the border had to 

be understood on the other. In the century when we invented 

aviation, when we invented cinema, in an age when we can 

move more and see more than any other point in history 

why have we become so watchful and so performative? I Am 

a Spy is a film that observes this watchfulness. 

FOR CULTURAL PURPOSES 

ONLY 

2009, 8 mins. 

Director Sarah Wood 

In an age dominated by the moving image what would it 

feel like to never see an image of the place that you came 

from? The Palestinian Film Archive contained over 100 

films showing the daily life and struggle of the Palestinian 

people. It was lost in the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982. Here 

interviewees describe from memory key moments from the 

history of Palestinian cinema. These scenes are drawn and 

animated. Where film survives, the artist’s impressions are 

corroborated. This is a film about reconstruction and the 

idea that cinema is an expression of cultural identity – that 

cinema fuels memory. 

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Programme Two 

Down Sun 22 | 1.00 CFF 15 

A screening of recent work by 2016 Margaret Tait 

Award winner Kate Davis will be complemented by 

Tait’s rarely seen On the Mountain, which revisits 

Edinburgh’s Rose Street and incorporates Tait’s 

earlier work Rose Street (1956)... a film within a film. 

CHARITY 


Director Kate Davis 

Inspired by the ways in which the work of filmmaker, 

poet and artist Margaret Tait (1918 - 1999), invites us 

to contemplate fundamental emotions and everyday 

activities that are often overlooked, Charity takes artistic 

representations of breastfeeding as its focus. The film 

explores how the essential - but largely invisible and 

unpaid - processes we employ to care for others could be 

re-imagined. 

Charity was commissioned by the Margaret Tait Award which is 

supported by LUX/ LUX Scotland and Glasgow Film Festival. 

WEIGHT 

2014 12 mins. 

Director Kate Davis 

Taking a 1961 BBC documentary about Barbara Hepworth 

as its starting point, Weight explores how televised 

depictions of creativity constructed our understanding 

of artistic production and other forms of labour. Weight 

re-imagines the value systems that this documentary is 

predicated upon and proposes an alternative vision. 

Produced as part of Artists and Archives, Artists Moving 

Image at the BBC 2014. Supported by BBC Scotland, LUX and 

Creative Scotland. 

All events and screenings 

are free of charge. 

This year’s microcinema takes Archive and Memory as its theme. Through photography, 

film and video, the last 100 plus years have resulted in a galaxy of captured moments. 

It’s no surprise that artists have begun to respond to this wealth of images. 

Taking place in Downing College’s Heong Gallery and Howard Auditorium, with additional 

screenings at the Arts Picturehouse, microcinema presents a week of screenings and events 

featuring the work of several artists. 

FALL INTO RUIN 

An installation by William E. Jones. 

Heong Gallery, Downing College 

Friday 19 - Monday 23 every day 

A gallery installation by William E Jones’s of his latest photo/film work Fall into Ruin looking 

at the Greek art collector / dealer Alexander Iolas. Fall into Ruin (32 mins) tells the story of 

the artist’s relationship with Alexander Iolas, the Greek art dealer and collector who at the 

height of his career owned galleries in New York, Paris, Milan, Geneva, Madrid and Athens, 

the latter being the city where he retired and the setting of Fall into Ruin. Active between 

the 1940s and the 1980s, Iolas was known for his association with the Surrealists, and for 

giving Andy Warhol his first solo exhibition in 1952 — this resulted in a life-long friendship. 

He also contributed in forming and advising on the collection of the great art patrons John 

and Dominique de Menil. 

Following his death in 1987 from AIDS, Iolas’s property in Athens was looted. His collection, 

which included artifacts and art from ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt, as well as pieces 

by the artists Iolas worked with, including Max Ernst, René Magritte, and Man Ray amongst 

many others, vanished. This prevented the realisation of Iolas’s vision for his villa to be 

turned into a contemporary art museum. The empty house was completely vandalized and 

today stands as a modern ruin. Fall into Ruin sees Jones return to the sites he first visited at 

the age of 19 and revisit the story of Alexander Iolas through views of his villa in its current 

ruined state, shots of contemporary Athens and antiquities on display at the National 

Archaeological Museum, as well as the original photographs Jones took of Villa Iolas in 

1982, also exhibited at Heong along with the film. 

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION 

Heong Gallery, Downing College Sunday 22 | 3.00 to 5.00 

Several of the filmmakers will present their screenings and take part in a round table 

at the Heong Gallery. 

THE COLOUR OF HIS HAIR 


Director Sam Ashby 

Starring Sean Hart, Josh O’Connor 

Sam Ashby’s The Colour of His Hair merges drama and 

documentary into an impressionistic meditation on queer 

life under the law. Based on an unrealised film script written 

in 1964 for The Homosexual Law Reform Society, a British 

organisation that campaigned for the decriminalisation of 

homosexual relations between men. The script tells of John 

and Peter, a young professional couple living in London who 

are the victims of a blackmail scam. Documentary footage, 

news clippings, archive films, and oral history recordings are 

woven around this central drama, highlighting the power 

inherent in the the archiving of queer trauma. 

ON THE MOUNTAIN 

1973, 35 mins. 

Director Margaret Tait 

Made in Edinburgh’s Rose Street, On the Mountain 

incorporates the whole of a previous film (Rose Street, 1956), 

including the leader and the titles. The original was shot 

in black and white, and the negative was lost, and for this 

reason Tait had the idea of preserving the film by framing it 

complete in colour, in a contrasted look at the same street 

in 1974. On the Mountain records and preserves the change. 

The camera broods and recognises the dustcart. Changed 

is too gentle a word, the street has ben ripped apart by the 

developers. An ugly modern precinct has emerged with 

shabby boutiques and plastic food. The back lane where 

the children played hopscotch reveals a gap site, a decaying 

Princess Street, with thumping machines and concrete.’ - 

Tamara Krikorian. 

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www.camfilmfest.com

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Programme Three 

Down Sat 21 | 3.00 CFF 15 

BLUE ON WHITE EDGES 

AND FRAMES 

1979, 17 mins. 

Director Margaret Tait 

The artist records herself painting blue colour on white 

canvas using her self-made camera helmet. The distance 

between Raspé and the canvas lets us only see small areas 

of the painting at any one time – the close up view that 

makes up all the earlier Camera Helmet films – but here she 

steps back and we see the whole canvas and the space that 

it’s in. Then back again to close up. “A 30 minute film of a 30 

minute painting”. A history of a painting and also a work in 

its own right. 

Print source Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 

AMNESIA 

2009, 8 mins. 

Director Cordelia Swann 

Inspired by the unlikely plots of afternoon TV and Hitchcock’s 

‘Rebecca’ Amnesia opens with our heroine discovering that 

her husband is Pierce Brosnan who gives her a mobile phone 

so that she will remember her past. 

Amnesia is commissioned by Animate Projects. 

Print source Cordelia Swann 

DELIRIA 

2006, 2 mins. 


By taking a single scene and overlaying it three times using 

delays and changes to density the result is a delirious 

musical and visual ‘round’ exposing the over heightened 

emotions of Vivien Leigh as she at first whispers for her 

lover’s return and then runs to him across an ersatz 

palace and terrace with a barely visible Bay of Naples and 

Mt Vesuvius smoldering in the background. 

THE JAZZ ROOM 

UK, 1985, 42 mins. 

Director Dick Jewell 

The method of making hinged on creating an ongoing 

dialogue with the subject to produce a living document. 

The Jazz Room was about the development of jazz dance 

at The Electric Ballroom, Camden. At the start of each night 

the ‘film so far’ was projected above the dance floor, before 

continuing to shoot more material to incorporate into the 

film. Over a period of a year and a half this created an 

interaction between the dancers and the film that informed 

the development of the dance style. 

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Programme Four 

Down Sun 22 | 11.00am CFF 15 

YELLOWCAKE 


Director Gair Dunlop 

Yellowcake traces the rise and fall of the UK nuclear fission 

research programme, seen through its sites, archives, 

memories and consequences. Gair Dunlop has spent 3 years 

gaining unique access to a range of research sites, archives 

and restricted facilities. As well as physical remains, the 

film explores the psychic realms of the nuclear- whether as 

postwar dream of a post-empire future, apocalyptic terror as 

entertainment, or zone beyond our understandings of time. 

DESERT ROSE 

1996, 26 mins. 


In Desert Rose we are taken from the cottonwoods, and 

deserts of southern Nevada to a contemporary and 1950s 

vision of the casinos, hotels and wedding chapels of Las 

Vegas, where a seamy underside is revealed, far more 

sinister and tragic than mere glitter, vice or gambling. 

For part of my childhood, to recuperate from tuberculosis, 

I was taken to live in the idyllic mountains of northern 

Nevada, where the occasional nuclear cloud drifted north 

from the Test Site, sixty miles from the city of Las Vegas. 

CORDELIA SWANN 

APH Sat 21 | 6.00 

ELECTRO-PYTHAGORUS 

(A PORTRAIT OF MARTIN BARTLETT) | CFF 15 


Director Luke Fowler 

The subject of my new 16mm/35mm film titled 

Electro-pythagorus is the Canadian computer music 

pioneer Martin Bartlett - who studied with Pauline Oliveros, 

David Tudor, John Cage and Pandit Pran Nath. His life and 

work are in danger of being erased from cultural memory 

since his death from AIDS in 1993. Drawing on an extensive 

use of hitherto unseen archival material - correspondence, 

travel journals, workbooks, personal photos and films, as 

well as a huge body of unreleased music and field recordings 

created over his lifetime. I employ my own 16mm camera as 

a tool to aid documentation; whilst also creating a 

subjective knowledge and connection to the places and 

people Bartlett touched. Martin’s biography includes 

joint-founding of the Western Front (an inter-disciplinary 

artists run centre in Vancouver), his involvement with 

Canada Shadows, his study of Asian music and tuning 

systems, and his turn to proto-computer music in the late 

70’s. While these areas are ostensibly the subject -my 

montage refuses to reduce Bartlett’s life to a onedimensional 

allegory. Instead, it ruminates on the struggles 

and politics of living, as well as enjoyment of the exalted 

states of being; of pleasure, sensuality and social 

communion. The films shifts between different visual 

registers and tones, yet aims to remain sonically faithful to 

Bartlett’s original texts and music. 

LUKE FOWLER 

APH Sat 21 | 10.30 

KINKY GERLINKY | CFF 15 

2002, 101 mins. 

Director Dick Jewell 

Kinky Gerlinky was the biggest, most fabulous, most 

stylish nightclub London has ever seen. This documentary 

edited from over 200 hours shot on 21 nights, conveys the 

experience of one full-on night out at the club, and gains a 

unique intimacy with most of the action directed to camera. 

Club culture, by nature a fleeting phenomenon, is rarely 

recorded in any depth. This documentary works to redress 

this fact. Above all, Kinky Gerlinky is about self–expression 

and glamour, excess and enjoyment. As an examination 

of the cultural and sexual politics of celebrity and glamour 

it is unique. 

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FASHIONISTA | CFF 18 

22 | 

APH Sun 22 | 10.30 

USA, 2016, 110 mins. 

Director 

Simon Rumley 

Starring 

Amanda Fuller, Ethan Embry, Eric Balfour, 

Alex Essoe, Devin Bonnée, Allie DeBerry 

In In the the ‘weird’ capital of of the the world, Austin, Texas, April and Eric 

own a vintage clothing store and they’re happily in in love – or or 

so so it it seems. As As things go go awry with their relationship, April 

relies increasingly on on her her clothes as as an an emotional crutch. 

When she she meets a handsome stranger in in a random bar, 

her her life life starts to to spiral out out of of control and she she has to to rely 

on on her her clothing fetish to to maintain some kind of of sanity. 

Rumley skirts the the edges of of genre more powerfully 

than anyone I I know... Powerful, tragic and 

redemptive. SCREEN ANARCHY 

We We hope to to welcome director Simon Rumley 

to to the the screening. 

Print source Alarm 

The Stylist 

USA, 2016, 15 15 mins 

Director 

Jill Jill Gevargizian 

Claire is is a lonely 

hairstylist with 

an an unnerving 

desire to to escape 

her her disappointing 

reality. When her her final 

client of of the the evening arrives with the the request to to 

look perfect, Claire has plans of of her her own. 

Print source Sixx Tape Productions 

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THE FOREST OF THE 

| 

LOST SOULS | CFF 15 

A Floresta das Almas 

Perdidas 

Portugal, 2016, 71 71 mins. Portuguese with 


Director José Pedro Lopes 

Starring Daniela Love, Jorge Mota, 

Mafalda Banquart 

An An elegant, modern gothic fairytale of of 

the the grimmest kind. Ricardo, a grieving 

father, and Carolina, a cynical 

young woman, meet in in a notorious 

Portuguese suicide forest, where 

a mutual fascination develops. 

Carolina lends Ricardo a pen and 

paper so so that he he can write a farewell 

note to to his his family, and explains 

that the the forest is is a regular haunt. 

But does she really visit the the woods 

to to contemplate suicide - or or is is she an an 

angel of of death, stalking lost souls? 

Writer-director José Pedro Lopes’ 

debut feature balances black-andwhite 

comedy with a wolfish charm 

and menace. 

Print source 

Sharp Teeth Films UK UK

UK 

PREMIERE 

UK 

PREMIERE 

APH Mon 23 | 10.15 

APH Fri 20 | 10.30, APH Mon 23 | 10.30 

APH Sat 21 | 10.30, APH Wed 25 | 11.00 

APH Tue 24 | 10.45 

HABIT | CFF 18 


Director Simeon Halligan 

Starring Elliot James Langridge, Jessica Barden, 

William Ash 

Manchester, the present. Michael divides his time 

between the job centre and the pub. A chance 

meeting with Lee, an introduction to her ‘Uncle’ 

Ian, and a heavy night on the lash, lead to a job 

working the door at a Northern Quarter massage 

parlour. After witnessing the violent death of one 

of the ‘punts’, Michael experiences blood-drenched 

flashbacks and feels himself being sucked into a 

twilight world that he doesn’t understand but that is 

irresistibly attractive. When he eventually finds out 

what goes on in the room below Cloud 9, Michael’s 

life will never be the same again. 

Print source Content Media 

RIFT | CFF PG 

Rökkur 

Iceland, 2017, 111 mins. Icelandic with English subtitles. 

Director Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen 

Starring Björn Stefánsson, Sigurður Þór Óskarsson, 

Guðmundur Ólafsson 

Months after their breakup, Gunnar receives a strange, 

distressed phone call from his ex-boyfriend, Einar. 

Gunnar drives up to the isolated cabin where Einar is 

holed up and they begin to dissect the remains of their 

broken relationship. Meanwhile, someone or something 

seems to be lurking outside the cabin, wanting to get 

in. The powerful chemistry between the two lead actors 

fuels the portrayal of a rocky, fractured relationship 

which is reflected in the grim beauty of the Icelandic 

landscape. Director Thoroddsen builds waves of 

queasy suspense to a spooky climax that redefines and 

refreshes the parameters of modern horror. 

We hope to welcome director Erlingur Óttar 

Thoroddsen to the screening. 

Print source Myrkraverk Productions ehf 

The Distant Sea 

UK, 15 mins. 

Director 

Nic Wassell 

On the east coast of England, 

a scientific researcher’s day 

takes on a sinister tone when 

two young girls take her on 

a journey to a strange house 

nearby, with an even stranger 

inhabitant. 

TONIGHT SHE COMES | 18 

USA, 2016, 84 mins. 

Director Matt Stuertz 

Starring Nathan Eswine, Larissa White, Jenna 

McDonald, Brock Russell, Cameisha 

Cotton, Adam Hartley 

After a girl goes missing, two of her dumb friends and 

a sinister set of strangers find themselves drawn to the 

cabin in the woods where she disappeared. They will 

laugh, they will drink, they will kiss, they will make love, 

and THEY MUST DIE. It all might sound reassuringly 

familiar (look out for a homage to one of Jason 

Voorhees’ best-loved kills) but prepare to be dazzled 

as the rednecks show hidden depths, the final girl is 

the first to die and jump scares are replaced by gleeful 

gore - complemented perfectly by a great Carpenter 

inspired score. 

Print source Jinga Films 

Smear 

UK, 5 mins. 

Director Kate Herron 

Fresh from Frightfest, 

Kate Herron’s comedy 

horror peeks behind the 

curtain at a not-so-routine 

smear test. Dr Wyndham 

is gonna need a bigger 

speculum… 

Print source Douglas Cox 

@ Shadowhouse Films 

WELL | CFF 18 

Kút 

Hungary, 2016, 95 mins. Hungarian with English 

subtitles. 

Director Attila Gigor 

Starring Irma Milovic, Pokorny Lia, Kurta Niké, Nora 

Trokán, Zsolt Kovács, Jankovics Péter 

At a gas station which squats on a freeway in the middle 

of nowhere, a man arrives hoping to reconcile with his 

estranged father. Their reunion is interrupted when a 

Swiss pimp pulls up to the pumps, accompanied by 

three charismatic, brooding sex workers. Their van 

has broken down, and can’t be fixed any time soon. 

Tarantino fans will love Well’s violent and quirky style. 

The dusty outskirts of Csákvár look great on 35mm, and 

the cramped gas station is the perfect backdrop for the 

trouble that’s brewing, as each character’s suppressed 

emotions and guilty secrets bubble to the surface. 

Print source Magyar Filmunió

FREE short 

film at 10am 

every day! 

WE’RE GOING ON A 

BEAR HUNT | U 

UK, 2016. 30 mins. 

FREE 

10.00AM 

Directors Joanna Harrison & Robin Shaw 

Starring Olivia Colman, Pam Ferris, Mark Williams 

Based on the bestselling book, written by Michael Rosen and 

illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt 

follows the adventures of siblings Stan, Katie, Rosie, Max, the 

baby and Rufus the dog, who set off on an expedition in search 

of bears, determined to ‘catch a big one’. With exquisite handdrawn 

animation by the team behind Channel 4 favourite The 

Snowman and The Snowdog (Lupus Films) We’re Going on a Bear 

Hunt is set to enchant a whole new audience with its story of 

perseverance, optimism and a love of nature. 

KATE IN OZ | U 

UK, 2016. 22 mins. 

Directors Scott & Julie Stewart 

Starring Maryke Hendrikse, Lee Tockar 

FREE 

10.00AM 

Kate in Oz, based on the classic tale The Wizard of Oz, is a special 

feature episode of the hit preschool series Kate & Mim-Mim. Kate 

in Oz takes best friends Kate and Mim-Mim on an unexpected 

journey when their magic accidentally takes them to Oz instead 

of to Mimiloo. In this utterly delightful interpretation, they set 

off along the yellow brick road towards the Emerald City on an 

adventure that teaches them about self-esteem, perseverance 

and friendship. 

THE RED BALLOON | PG 

Le Ballon Rouge 


Director Albert Lamorisse 

Starring Pascal Lamorisse, Sabine Lamorisse, 

FREE 

10.00AM 

Georges Sellier 

To celebrate the beauty and movement of the Fitzwilliam 

Museum special exhibition, Degas: A passion for perfection, we 

will be showing the iconic, Oscar winning short film The Red 

Balloon. In this film a red balloon with a life of its own follows a 

little boy around the streets of Paris (a poignant symbol for the 

dreams of childhood). The film will be followed by art activities 

with the Fitzwilliam team. 

11.00 

AM 

THE BREADWINNER | CFF 12 

Canada/Ireland/Luxembourg, 2017, 94 mins. 

Director Nora Twomey 

Starring Saara Chaudry, Laara Sadiq, Shaista Latif 

The Breadwinner, based on Deborah Ellis’ award-winning novel, 

breathes life into the extraordinary story of 11-year-old Afghan 

girl Parvana, born into an ever-changing world of conflict and 

oppression, who finds strength in the love of her family and the 

power of storytelling. Unable to earn money as a girl, Parvana 

disguises herself as a boy to support her family when her 

father is taken away by the Taliban. This is the latest film from 

Cartoon Saloon the multi-award winning animation studio. 

The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 

September and will go on general release later this year. Parents 

- this film contains scenes that are upsetting, challenging, 

thought provoking and inspiring. 

Be prepared for the myriad 

conversations that are 

bound to follow! 

MOANA SING-A-LONG | PG 

USA, 2016, 107 mins. 

Directors Ron Clements & John Musker 

Starring Auli’i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson 

11.00 

AM 

Moana doesn’t need an introduction as I’m sure you’ve all 

seen it by now! This is your chance to be part of the magic with 

the Moana sing-a-long! The songs were written by broadway 

playwright, songwriter and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda, 

composer Mark Mancina and Tokelauan singer-songwriter 

Opetaia Foa’i, with lyrics in English, Samoan, Tokelauan, and 

Tuvalu. A couple of years ago when we screened the Frozen 

sing-a-long our audience really raised the roof. But, dare I say it, 

I like How Far I’ll Go even more than Let It Go! So let’s get our feet 

tapping, our hands clapping and share the songs of this brilliant 

movie! 

EMMA 

SAT 21 

3.00 

THE LEGO NINJAGO 

MOVIE | PG 

Denmark/USA, 2017, 101 mins. 

11.00 

AM 

Directors Charlie Bean & Paul Fisher 

Starring Olivia Munn, Justin Theroux, Jackie Chan 

From the team that ‘assembled’ The Lego Movie and The Lego 

Batman Movie … six young ninjas Lloyd, Jay, Kai, Cole, Zane and 

Nya are tasked with defending Ninjago City. Led by Master Wu, 

as wise-cracking as he is wise, they must defeat evil warlord 

Garmadon, The Worst Guy Ever, who also happens to be Lloyd’s 

dad. Ninja-GO to the Family Film Festival for 

half-term film fun! 

COMEDY FOR KIDS AND 

ADULTS WITH NEIL BRAND | U 

USA, 1920s, c.75 mins. 

Hal Roach ran a comedy studio in the 1920s that contained 

some of the funniest comics in silent cinema, and in this show 

we meet five of them: the great Charley Chase, the even greater 

Laurel and Hardy, plus two very funny women: Anita Garvin and 

Marion Byron. Created and presented by acclaimed musician, 

broadcaster and Family Festival favourite Neil Brand, this 

show for kids of all ages reveals Neil’s wide-ranging knowledge, 

abundant wit and flair for musical story-telling. Children will be 

encouraged to get involved with the music! 

BRIGHT IDEAS CRAFT TABLE 

Each day we will have a craft table in the bar which is free for 

you to enjoy. The craft materials have been kindly donated 

by Bright Ideas: www.brightideascrafts.co.uk. 

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Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd 

Our friends at John Lewis will be joining in the Festival fun, so 

come and visit our Pop-Up Cinema in the children's department. 

www.camfilmfest.com

THE INFAMOUS 

CHALK GIRL | PG 

UK, 2017, 25 mins. Chinese with English subtitles. 

Director San San F. Young 

FREE 

10.00AM 

Chalk Girl: a protester at the heart of Hong Kong’s democracy 

movement. Two years since her arrest made her an accidental 

infamous hero of the pro-democracy umbrella movement, the 

16-year-old must decide whether to rejoin the battle alongside 

the ‘localist’ youth. As elections loom, Chalk Girl is torn between 

wanting to respect her family, who are concerned about the risks 

of her activism, and standing up to Chinese interference. Young 

localists see themselves as being in a fight to save their beloved 

city, and in the middle of it all, Chalk Girl is just a teenager 

wanting to feel part of something bigger. What has happened to 

Chalk Girl since the documentary was made? Director, San San F 

Young will be here to give you an update and take questions! 

PEPPA PIG | U 

Director Mark Baker 

Starring Emma Grace Arends, 

FREE 

10.00AM 

Morwenna Banks, Harley Bird 

Get set for lots of laughs with Peppa, her family, and all her 

animal friends! After the screening we will have a special visitor 

waiting to meet the children - the real life Peppa Pig (courtesy of 

Cambridge Party Heroes. Find them on Facebook!). 

THE FANTASTIC FLYING 

BOOKS OF MR. MORRIS 

LESSMORE | PG 

USA, 2011, 15 mins. 

Directors William Joyce & Brandon Oldenburg 

FREE 

10.00AM 

Oscar winning animation inspired in equal measures by 

Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love 

for books. Morris Lessmore is a story about people who devote 

their lives to books and how books return the favour. 

11.00 

AM 

SNOW WHITE AND 

THE SEVEN DWARFS | U 

USA, 1937, 83 mins. 

11.00 

AM 

THE EAGLE HUNTRESS | PG 

UK/Mongolia/USA, 2016, 87 mins. 

Director Otto Bell 

Starring Aisholpan Nurgaiv, Rys Nurgaiv 

This spellbinding documentary follows Aisholpan, a 13-yearold 

nomadic Mongolian girl who is fighting to become the first 

female eagle hunter in twelve generations of her Kazakh family. 

Through breathtaking aerial cinematography and intimate 

verite footage, the film captures her personal journey while also 

addressing universal themes like female empowerment, the 

natural world, coming of age and the onset of modernity. 

Directors William Cottrell & David Hand 

Starring Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne 

Snow White celebrates her 80th birthday this year! The beautiful 

and kind-hearted princess Snow White charms every creature 

in the kingdom except one - her jealous stepmother, the Queen. 

When the Magic Mirror proclaims Snow White the fairest one of 

all, she must flee into the forest, where she befriends the lovable 

seven dwarfs - Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy 

and Dopey. But when the Queen tricks Snow White with an 

enchanted apple, only the magic of true love’s kiss can save her! 

Small children may find the bit where the Queen enchants the 

apple a bit scary! 

THE RED TURTLE | PG 

La Tortue Rouge 

France/Belgium/Japan, 2016, 80 mins. 

11.00 

AM 

Director Michael Dudok de Wit 

Starring Emmanuel Garijo, Tom Hudson, Baptiste Goy 

This beautifully animated film from Studio Ghibli tells the story 

of a man who becomes shipwrecked on a deserted island and 

meets a giant red female turtle. A dialogue-free story about love 

and humanity that is totally captivating! 

Cambridge 

Science Centre 

10.00am to 1.00pm 

Cambridge Science Centre will be bringing hands-on 

activities on the theme of images, light & colour to the 

Family Film Festival. Explore the spectrum of light 

from infrared to ultraviolet via all the colours of the 

rainbow. See yourself in infrared, turn a 2D video 

into a 3D projection and make a rainbow 

bracelet to take home. There’s more to 

light than meets the eye! 

ROMSEY MILL SCREENING 

We are delighted to have teamed up with Romsey Mill Children’s Centre to bring 

Family Festival fun to the heart of the Romsey community. Join us on 

TUES 

24th 

10.30AM 

Tuesday 24th October 

10.30-11.30am 

The Gruffalo & 

The Gruffalo’s 

Child 

THUR 

26th 

10.30AM 

Popcorn and juice on arrival! Tickets are free! 

Please call 01223 566102 to book your place. 

Thursday 26th October 

10.30-11.30am 

The Fantastic Flying 

Books of Mr Morris 

Lessmore & 

Danger Mouse 

Box office: 0871 902 5720 

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Christopher Nolan, 

Shane Meadows, 

Andrea Arnold, Ruben 

Oestlund … what do 

all these names have 

in common? Each of 

them had a short film in 

Cambridge Film Festival 

near the start of their 

careers. Coincidence? … 

well, probably but still! 

It is proof that when 

you come along to a 

ShortFusion programme 

at Cambridge Film 

Festival, you never 

know what budding 

auteur you might see 

the early works of. This 

year’s programme is 

yet another jampacked 

smorgasboard of 

the very best of up 

and coming UK and 

international talent. 

APH Fri 20 | 10.20, APH Tue 24 | 10.30am 

HOPES & DREAMS | CFF 15 

Love, obsession, acceptance, a new life. A collection of hopes and dreams. 

Just Go! 

Latvia, 11 mins. 

Director Pavel Gumennikov 

Inspired by the incredible true story about a young 

man Just, who lost both of his legs in a childhood 

accident and who is in love with the girl next door . 

Print source Pavel Gummenikov 

Sticky 

UK, 13 mins. 

Director Richard Turley 

Lost in fantasy, Karen’s crush on the postman is 

about to get sticky. A suburban tale of lust, parcels 

and chewing gum. 

Print source Richard Turley 

Amber 

UK, 14 mins. 

Director Andi Osho 

A teen fan fiction writer takes her boyband obsession 

too far in a twisted, late night confrontation with the 

object of her desires. 

Print source Andi Osho 

The Overcoat 

UK, 18 mins. 

Director Patrick Myles 

A lonely social outcast gets a glimpse of what life 

is like for someone popular, and cannot let it go, 

even in death. 

Print source New Division Films 

American Dream 

USA, 12 mins. 

Director Alexia Oldini 

A young Chinese immigrant woman moves to New 

York City in the hopes of achieving her dreams but 

things do not go as planned. 

Print source Gray Motion Pictures 

Bitches Love Brunch 

Canada, 11 mins. 

Director Sasha Leigh Henry 

4 girls, 1 brunch date, 0 dollars. When all seems lost 

in love and the job market, Chantelle and her three 

friends show each other how to get by. 

Print source Sasha Leigh Henry 

Down Sun 22 | 4.00, APH Mon 23 | 1.15 

SPORTING 

CHANCE | CFF 15 

Sometimes meant in its metaphorical sense and 

in other cases more literally, these films are all 

about people fighting for a sporting chance. 

Garrincha 


Director Jeanne Leblanc 

As a heat wave hits Montreal, Andres and his friends get 

together for a game of soccer. It seems like any other 

summer afternoon until their game is disrupted by the 

appearance of Kevin, a player who had vanished for days. 

Print source Spira 

Baby Boy 

Australia, 15 mins. 

Director Jackson Mullane 

Bronson is a repressed, yet fiercely determined youth 

who juggles his sporting dreams under the strain of 

living with his drug-dependent mother. 

Print source Young Blood Films 

Contenders 

UK, 13 mins. 

Director Divya Pathak 

Three Indian girls battle social and financial pressures 

as they pursue their passion for boxing, the sport that 

could hold the key to their futures. 

Print source Divya Pathak 

TV in the Fish Tail 

UK/India/USA, 13 mins. 

Director Iesh Thapar 

As electricity is introduced to a remote Trans-Himalayan 

village, an adolescent boy struggles to reconcile his 

excitement with the abjection that surrounds him. 

Print source Iesh Thapar 

The Incident 

Iran, 22 mins. 

Director Meedo Taha 

At a bus stop near Beirut, a veiled Lebanese woman and 

a migrant Syrian worker get in a tumultuous moment 

and are arrested. They must argue their innocence in the 

face of the only witnesses: a bus full of women on their 

way to Koran school, each with her version of the truth. 

Print source drawFILM 

ShortFusion is presented 

in partnership with the 

ibis Hotel 

APH Sat 21 | 8.15, APH Tue 24 | 1.00 

PAYING ATTENTION | CFF 15 

Heather Heyer died in Charlottesville. Her last ever tweet was 

“If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention”. 

My Nephew Emmett 

USA, 20 mins. 

Director Kevin Wilson 

In 1955, A 64-year-old African American 

Mississippi preacher tries to keep two 

racist killers from abducting his 14-year-old 

nephew, Emmett Louis Till. 

Print source Kevin Wilson, Jr 

Half A Man 

Croatia, 20 mins. 

Director Kristina Kumrić 

A village in the outback of Dalmatia, 

autumn of 1991. The war is raging nearby. 

10-year-old Mia and 12-year-old Lorena 

are having a big day: their father, Mirko, is 

going to be released from the camp where 

he spent the last three months as a prisoner 

of war. 

Print source Restart 

Léo 

UK, 14 mins. 

Director Julian Alexander 

Desperate to make money, Léo accepts a job 

smuggling a refugee couple through France. 

Print source Leeds Beckett University 

Benny Got Shot 

USA, 20 mins. 

Director Malcolm Washington 

Young autopsy assistant, Naomi, struggles 

to see more in the people on her table than 

just corpses requiring a cause of death. 

Print source American Film Institute 

Hope Dies Last 

UK, 8 mins. 

Director Ben Price 

A Polish political prisoner cuts the hair of a 

German officer. 

Print source Ben Price 

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GOOD GRIEF | CFF 15 

Death and loss are just a much a part of life as 

living… and as these tales show, there are often 

glimmers of light, liberation or gallows humour 

that help us grow and keep going. 

After All 


Director Michael Cusack 

A poignant short stop motion film about a middle 

aged man coming to terms with the loss of his 

mother. 

Print source Michael Cusack 

APH Tues 24 | 10.00, MC Thu 26 | 12.00 

NEXT GENERATION SHORT TIGER 2017 

German Films presents the 20th annual selection of remarkable student shorts, the 

talent showcase NEXT GENERATION. And for the 7th time, this initiative is successfully 

complemented by the winners of the German Federal Film Board’s (FFA) SHORT TIGER Award, 

the best German short films under 5 minutes. 

With NEXT GENERATION SHORT TIGER 

2017, we invite you to discover promising talents 

and new film trends early on. The filmmakers scan 

deeply under the surface of today’s ways of life and 

share new perspectives with the audience. Their 

stories are deeply personal as well as very universal, 

told from different angles and in a variety of styles. 

Once more this program confirms that short film is an 

independent art form deserving of the big screen and 

the awareness of audiences. 

BENEATH THE 

SURFACE | CFF 15 

A collection of tales about all that goes along 

unsaid. 

Diagnosis 

UK, 17 mins. 

Director Eva Riley 

Sally’s secretive evening job forces her to face 

up to feelings she thought she had under 

control. 

Print source Eva Riley 

Breathing Through a 

Straw 


Director Leigh Rivenbark 

When a hookup ends in homicide, Parker 

decides to confront the man who abused him 

as a child. 

Print source Leigh Rivenbark 

A Girl Goes For Dinner 

UK, 15 mins. 

Director Jack Ethan Perry 

A young woman travels to the home of an 

older man for her evening meal. As the two 

sit down to eat, conversation flows and the 

darker motives behind this unusual meeting 

begin to reveal themselves. 

Print source Jack Ethan Perry 

AniMal 

Iran, 15 mins. 

Directors Bahram & Bahman Ark 

A man who wants to pass the border, disguises 

himself as a ram. 

Print source Iranian National School of 

Cinema 

Grace 


Director Alex Holmes 

A teenage girl living in an extreme Christian 

sect is driven into psychological turmoil by 

her Elders when she strikes up an innocent 

relationship with a boy. 

Print source Causeway Films 

APH Mon 23 | 10.30, MC Wed 25 | 4.30 

Las Cenizas (The Ashes) 

USA, 6 mins. 

Director Jacob Kirby 

In the wake of a domestic tragedy, a turbulent pair 

of siblings travel to Cuba in hopes of finding peace 

with their estranged father in his home-land. 

Print source Jacob Kirby 

Chick Flick 

USA, 15 mins. 

Director Lucy McKendrick 

A young woman is forced to reconnect with her 

hippie mother in order to euthanize their beloved 

pet chicken after it is mauled by a fox. 

Print source American Film Institute 

Tom 

UK, 15 mins. 

Director Duncan Christie 

Sophie and Henry are trying to locate their grown 

up son Tom, having lost contact with him for the 

umpteenth time during his struggles with drug 

addiction. Sophie will do anything to find her son 

but Henry knows it’s time to take a step back. 

Print source Finite Productions 

Mariela 

UK, 10 mins. 

Director Victoria Romero 

A girl remembers the tragic story of the woman 

that was her nanny. 

Print source Victoria Romero 

Cake 

UK, 6 mins. 

Director Alan Friel 

Two women sit in a barren dystopian wasteland 

discussing the best way to die. 

Print source Farah Abushwesha 

Malcolm 

UK, 10 mins. 

Director Jay Loe 

Malcolm causes a struggling relationship to 

breakdown, from beyond the grave. 

Print source Jay Loe 

We hope to welcome filmmakers from the programme to the screening. 

Ayny by Ahmad Saleh 

A cruel war has taken two 

brothers‘ home. Their mother 

protects them under her arms 

and fosters the seed of their new 

life, anxious her sons could come 

into danger if they leave the 

house. But the boys chase their 

dream to play a music instrument 

they’ve fallen in love with. A beautiful Oud. They collect 

scrap metal to earn the money and must find out that 

their mother’s fear was for a good reason. But as strong 

birds will always fly, the two boys become one to 

overcome their trauma. 

The Blood We Saw 

by Josephine Links 

How does time pass – waiting, 

hoping, fearing – after a long 

escape, in search for a little piece 

of future? A “container village” for 

refugees at the borders of town. A 

transit space where everyday life 

merges with memories and 

pictures of the past. The Blood We 

Saw explores this life in a state of uncertainty and gives a 

notion of how people there might feel. People who left 

everything behind and still cannot forget anything of what 

they’ve lived through. 

Close by Lisa Reich 

Etage X by Francy Fabritz 

During a dance rehearsal, Jonas 

receives the instruction to kiss his 

dance partner and secret crush 

Mira. He is so busy hiding his 

insecurities, that he doesn’t even 

notice how similar Mira 

experiences the situation. 

An accidental meeting in an 

elevator at a department store 

leads two older women to their 

limits and forces them to 

improvise when the elevator 

gets stuck. 

Herr Und Frau Müller (Mr And 

Mrs Müller) by Dominique Klein 

Mr and Mrs Müller have been 

together for 45 years. Although Mr 

Müller is a quadriplegic who lost 

his ability to speak and move 

almost 18 years ago, he and his 

wife have not lost their 

enthusiasm for talking to each 

other. They have lively 

discussions through blinking and show that true lovers 

always find a common language. 

APH Wed 25 | 5.15, MC Thu 26 | 10.00am 

Meinungsaustausch (Duologue) 

by Sophie Linnenbaum & Sophia Bösch 

Germany, fall of 2015. A 

never-ending flow of arrivals, 

news, emotions, fears, images. 

And us? Somewhere in between. 

The German Angst of the 

unknown – a reluctant dialogue. 

Moonjourney by Chiara Grabmayr 

The heartbreaking story of a 

father who must flee with his 

daughter from the war in Syria. 

To protect her from the traumatic 

events of the dangerous journey, 

he starts playing a game to make 

her believe they are travelling to 

the moon… 

Our Wonderful Nature – the 

Common Chameleon by Tomer Eshed 

The feeding habits of the 

common chameleon as never 

seen before. 

Santa Maria by Erik Schmitt 

A man who receives a treasure 

map by accident is now looking 

for the treasure. Whilst searching 

he has to deal with gangsters, a 

devious widow, a corrupt 

policeman and a pretty 

policewoman – no, she doesn’t 

matter. 

Shine 

by Alexander Dietrich & Johannes Flick 

Taschengeld (Change) 

by Annika Pinske 

Two male, glowing creatures start 

a fight over trying to impress a 

female. Each one of them wants 

to win her over by giving a better 

light show than his competitor. 

They are on fire... until one gets 

burned! 

As usual, Elsa spends her 

afternoons at her father’s strip 

club. Tired from work and 

annoyed by his daughter, he 

sends her to the club upstairs to 

collect change. Waiting turns 

into boredom until an 

unexpected encounter changes 

the relationships between Elsa and her father. 

Box office: 0871 902 5720 ShortFusion | CambridgeFilmFestival2017 | 29

CAMBRIDGE 

FILMMAKER FOCUS 

Programmed by local people. 

Free of Charge in The Moving Cinema, Parker’s Piece. 

QUEERS IN 

SHORTS | CFF 15 

90 mins. 

Queer-themed short films from around 

the world. Programmed and hosted by 

gayinthe80s.com and Encompass Network 

Happy & Gay 

by Lorelei Pepi 

A queer revisionist history of 1930’s black 

and white cartoons, Happy & Gay is a 

musical cartoon inspired by the power of 

representation. 

When a Man Loves A 

Woman 

by Charlie Francis 

Nick is in his 20’s but still hides his 

homosexuality from his mother. 

Boys on Film 16: 

Possession 

No Matter Who 

by Anne-Claire Jaulin 

It’s summertime and a troop of young 

girls are headed to scout camp. For Marie 

and Lise, it is a time for their first sparks 

of emotion, a time to learn more about 

desire and how one confronts a group and 

their morality. 

Girls on Film 2: Before 

Dawn 

Follow Me 

by Anthony Schatteman 

Eighteen-year-old Jasper is madly in 

love with his art teacher. Overcome with 

confusion and longing, Jasper takes 

to following his teacher and his new 

girlfriend wherever they go. 

B. 

by Kai Stanicke 

Torn between a cold relationship with K. 

and her feelings for another woman, shy 

and insecure B. is heading for disaster. For 

too long she has suppressed her desires 

and lived a lie, but is it too late for B. to 

follow her heart? 

MONDAY 23rd 11.00am 

TUESDAY 24th 11.00am 

RED BALLOON 

CFF 12 

UK, 2016, 43 mins. 

At the Red Balloon Learner Centre, 

Cambridge, many of the students study 

media. Here we present a selection of 

their films; fascinating documentaries, 

wonderful animation & heartwarming 

music videos 

A Tale of Two Hostels 

A TALE OF TWO HOSTELS reveals the 

untold stories of two refuge hostels 

before and during the war: one for 

Spanish children and Basque refugees 

from Franco, and the other for Jewish 

teenagers from Germany. 

Umbarella Red Balloon 

Music Video 

A look at the Red Balloon Learning 

Centre and what it achieves. 

Harry Advert 

Help Harry 

Miffy Iz Bad 

Miffy is a Crazy Cat 

Chess (An Extract) 

An epic battle of chess! 

Archie’s Dogs 

A tale of ants on the warpath. 

A Place Called Red 

Balloon 

White Board Animation. 

The Scruffs Title 

Sequence 

Kids TV Title Sequence animation. 

Paint Animation 

Animation using glass & ink. 

Mad World 

Hand-drawn animation. 

The Dog Show 

Dogs Cider & Husky enter a dog show. 

What Had to be Done 

Suzanne’s father finds her diary... 

Two Lonely Dogs 

A story of friendship between dogs. 

The Creep 

A black & white Noir piece. 

Trip me Up 

A 3D model animation about bullying. 

A Small World 

Let us take a deep journey into a small 

world... 

SUNDAY 22nd 12.00 

SAWSTON 

CINEMA AND 

HINCHINGBROOKE 

SCHOOL | CFF 12 

UK, 2016, 43 mins. 

Sawston Village college run a very successful 

filmmaking club. Hinchingbrooke School Sixth 

Form Film students must create a short nodialogue 

film for their coursework. Don’t miss 

this chance to see these superb Cambridgeshire 

student films on the big screen. 

Bonnie and Bonnie 

Is there more than one Bonnie? 

Morphed 

A morphing villain is lurking in the school. How 

will Agent Perry find him? 

Messy Eaters 

A boss fires two agents for incompetence. But 

when their messy eating habits help them snare a 

wanted criminal, will their boss regret this decision? 

What’s under Eylem’s Hat? 

Why does Eylem always wear a hat? Is there 

something she’s hiding? 

Lockdown 

A pupil accidently sends the school into lockdown. 

With the classrooms all firmly closed, how will the 

pupils respond? 

Cinemnoir 

When Alex’s sister vanishes, she sets out to solve 

the mystery. 

Post It Note Killer 

A killer is on the loose and, as deaths mount, the 

police seem to arrive always just too late to catch 

the murderer. Will they finally succeed? 

Mysterious Object 

After picking up a strange object, Helena soon 

regrets her action. But how can she get rid of it? 

Wheels by Charlie Leggett 

Explores the events leading up to and the 

aftermath of a dreadful accident. 

Dishes by Kieran Starr 

The wife has gone out and the husband has just 

one job to do before her return… 

Nostalgia by Tora Roe 

A romance blossoms, but there’s something amiss. 

Midnight Mood by Connor Martin 

The tragic downfall of a talented musician. 

Faceful of Cake by Bodie Miles 

The Weightwatchers crowd disperses, leaving two 

lone desperadoes and a pile of doughnuts. 

Stalker by Jessie Leadbetter 

A cottage in the woods and a tenant with a 

strange obsession. Look out! 

Guilty by Willow Steeden 

An overworked teacher has a troubled mind and a 

terrible burden, but is there more to the story? 

Awoken by Jess Lumley 

What is the cause of the mysterious death 

and is there more to the crime scene than 

there seems? 

LOCAL INDIE 

FILMMAKERS 

CFF 15 

UK, 2016-17, 53 mins. 

Cambridge has a thriving independent 

filmmaking scene. Support your local 

filmmakers and watch this special 

selection of their work. Including award 

winners, a world premiere & a Project 

Trident classic! The filmmakers will be 

in attendance and around to chat after 

the screening. 

Purple is Her 

by Jonnie Howard 

An Intergalactic poacher hunts an Alien 

species to the brink of extinction 

Abusing my Position 

Music Vid 

by Colin Ramsay 

Music Video for Abusing my Position by 

Dan Wilde 

Friend in the Machine 

by Colin Ramsay 

WORLD PREMIERE 

Can a robot be a true friend? How do we 

deal with a rapidly ageing population 

and fewer resources to care for our loved 

ones? What is companionship and can 

a machine be a substitute for a human 

companion? Second in a quadrilogy of 

short films exploring topical issues within 

the field of artificial intelligence - Friend in 

the Machine presents fascinating insights 

from academia and industry about the 

world of companion robots and asks 

what it means to be human in an age of 

nearly human machines. 

Slo Mo Music Video 

by Reeta Varpama 

Music Video for Slo Mo by Elma 

The Astronaut 

by Abbie Loosemore 

A young boy, absorbed in his fascination 

for space travel, attempts to use his 

knowledge to escape trouble at home. 

Single to London 

by Ryd Cook 

A young man takes a long ride aboard 

his literal train of thought and hopes to 

make a first impression before the end 

of the line. 

The Door 

by Olivia Jordan 

A charming and uplifting piece of 

personal philosophy. 

Andy Needs His Milk 

by Carl Peck 

Project Trident classic. When Xander 

Popplescotch discovers an injured 

man named Andy lying in the rubbish, 

he takes him under his wing. But now 

“Andy” needs his Milk. 

BEST OF REEL 

WOMEN | CFF 15 


Reel Women is a monthly short film night 

promoting the work of female filmmakers. 

It has been running for 2 years. To 

celebrate, we present the best films of all 

the screenings, especially selected by the 

Reel Women team 

The Bellowing Blue 

by Caroline Apichella 

Winner of ITN Source Short Film 

Competition. A one-minute film using 

solely footage from ITN Source and music 

from Audio Network. 

Stryka 

by Emily Carmichael 

A sci-fi comedy starring Aimee Mullins 

& Rupert Friend about the inner life of a 

reptile alien thief in futuristic Brooklyn. 

Meal Time 

by Tiffany Wei 

Some of my best conversations/memories 

are ones shared with others over a meal. 

This is based on my personal experiences 

while eating. 

Playground Politix 

by Doreen Spicer-Dannelly 

When a group of girls approach a group 

of boys at the playground a dance battle 

ensues. 

The Wooden House 

by Hannah Gautrey 

A short documentary on Wesley West, 

a sculptor and model maker based in 

Cambridge. 

Papa 

by Natalie Labarre 

When an eccentric inventor realizes he’s 

not a perfect father, he tries to make one. 

MONDAY 23rd 1.00 

TUESDAY 24th 2.00 


MONDAY 23rd 2.00 


TUESDAY 24th 1.00 

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78/52 6 

120BPM 6 

A157 6 

Amateurs in Space 6 

Amnesia 23 

Anishoara 6 

Ask the Sexpert 18 

The Ballad of Shirley Collins 6 

Battle of the Sexes 5 

The Battleship Island 21 

Becoming Cary Grant 6 

Beneath the Surface (ShortFusion) 29 

Best of Reel Women 

(Cambridge Filmmaker Focus) 30 

Blue on White Edges and Frames 23 

The Breadwinner 7, 26 

Buena Vista Adios 7 

Cambridge Filmmaker Focus 30 

Casanova 19 

Cause of Death: Unknown 7 

Charity 22 

Charulata 18 

The Cinema Travellers 18 

The Cloud-Capped Star 18 

The Colour of His Hair 22 

Comedy for Kids and Adults 

with Neil Brand 26 

Conditional release 7 

Cycling Programme 5 

Dawson City, Frozen Time 7 

Deliria 23 

The Desert Bride 7 

Desert Rose 23 

The Distant Sea 25 

The Eagle Huntress 27 

Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel 21 

Electro-Pythagoras 23 

Empire Soldiers 21 

The Faces We Lost 15 

The Fantastic Flying Books 

of Mr Morris Lessmore 27 

A Fantastic Woman 7 

Fashionista 24 

Félicité 15 

Flicker + Pulse 7 

The Florida Project 7 

For Cultural Purposes Only 22 

The Forest of the Lost Souls 24 

Good Grief (ShortFusion) 29 

The Gruffalo 27 

Habit 25 

Hopes and Dreams (ShortFusion) 28 

I am a Spy 22 

Ignition: First Acts 15 

In Search of Colour: 

Kinemacolor Shorts 19 

In the Same Boat 14 

India in a Day 18 

The Infamous Chalk Girl 27 

It’s Not Yet Dark 7 

The Jazz Room 23 

Journeyman 8 

Julian Schnabel: a Private Portrait 8 

Kate in Oz 26 

Kati Kati 15 

Kékszakállú 8 

The Killing of a Sacred Deer 8 

King of the Belgians 8 

Kinky Gerlinky 23 

The Lego Ninjago Movie 26 

Local Indie Filmmakers 

(Cambridge Filmmaker Focus) 30 

Love, Cecil 8 

Loveless 8 

Manifesto 8 

Menashe 8 

Midnight Runners 21 

Mildred Pierce 19 

Moana Sing-a-long 26 

Morvern Callar 13 

Mountains May Depart 8 

My Fair Lady 19 

The Net 21 

The New Fire 9 

Next Generation Short Tiger 29 

The Next Skin 14 

No Land’s Song 9 

On the Mountain 22 

The One-Eyed King 14 

Operation Syncopation 9 

Paying Attention (ShortFusion) 28 

Peppa Pig 27 

The Prince of Nothingwood 9 

The Pruning Season 9 

Queers in Shorts (Cambridge 

Filmmaker Focus) 30 

Ratcatcher 13 

Red Balloon (Cambridge 


The Red Balloon 26 

The Red Circle 10 

The Red Turtle 27 

Rescue Under Fire 10 

Resistance is Life 10 

Rift 25 

Sawston and Hinchingbrooke 

School (Cambridge 


Second Date 21 

Sex, Pity and Loneliness 10 

Shiraz: A Romance of India 18 

ShortFusion 28-29 

ShortReel 14 

Smear 25 

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 27 

Son of Sofia 11 

Sporting Chance (ShortFusion) 28 

The Square 11 

Strangled 11 

The Stylist 24 

A Taste of Ink 11 

This is Our Land 12 

Tonight She Comes 25 

The Truth 19 

Uncertain Glory 14 

Untitled 12 

Vaya 15 

Virtual Reality programme 20 

The Wages of Fear 19 

We Need to Talk About Kevin 13 

Weight 22 

Well 25 

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt 26 

Wilderness 12 

The Woman That Men Yearn For 19 

Wonderful You 21 

Wonderstruck 12 

The Wound 15 

Wulu 15 

Yellowcake 23 

You Were Never Really Here 13 

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